dockers

plural of docker, chiefly British
as in longshoremen
one who loads and unloads ships at a port dockers threatened to go on strike and shut down all shipping on the Thames

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Noun
  • Other lawsuits have been filed by the state of Maryland, the city of Baltimore and scores of longshoremen who lost work when the harbor shut down.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Bridges traveled the West Coast coordinating a strike of all longshoremen and warehousemen.
    Rebecca Brenner Graham / Made by History, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
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  • Automation had been a central point of contention in the two-year contract negotiations between the East and Gulf Coast port dockworkers’ union and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX).
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 5 Sep. 2025
  • That is comparable to the pay for dockworkers on the West Coast, represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose wages will rise to nearly $61 in 2027.
    Peter Eavis, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Dockers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dockers. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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