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The word stevedore (/ ˈ s t iː v ɪ ˌ d ɔːr /) originated in Portugal or Spain, and entered the English language through its use by sailors. [3] It started as a phonetic spelling of estivador or estibador (), meaning a man who loads ships and stows cargo, which was the original meaning of stevedore (though there is a secondary meaning of "a man who stuffs" in Spanish); compare Latin ...
That rose to $24.75 per hour after two years on the job and to $31.90 after three years, topping out at $39 for workers with at least six years of service. The union secured a 61.5% raise over six ...
Longshore worker and crane operator Al Webster joined the Seattle march on May 1, 2007 to call for an end to the Iraq war. In protest of the Iraq War, the ILWU encouraged longshore workers to "shut down all West Coast ports" by walking off the job on May 1, 2008, to "make May Day a 'No Peace, No Work' holiday." On May 1, more than 10,000 ILWU ...
In 1947, Parliament introduced the "Dock Workers’ (Regulation of Employment) Scheme". The scheme was administered by the National Dock Labour Board, and by local boards, made up of equal numbers of "persons representing dock workers in the port and of persons representing the employers of such dockworkers", the scheme was financed by a levy on the employers.
The union representing thousands of dockworkers from Maine to Texas launched a strike Tuesday over wages and the use of automation, shutting down seaports with a work stoppage that threatens to ...
Striking workers at the Red Hook Container Terminal gather after members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, or ILA, began walking off the job on Oct. 2, 2024, in Brooklyn, N.Y ...
In South Wales it attracted a large following amongst metal-workers. [3] The union was renamed the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1899. [4] By this time, it had lost most of its members in London, but continued to grow as more workers joined elsewhere in the country. [2]
The NUDL, by this time renamed the National Union of Dock, Riverside and General Workers in Great Britain and Ireland, joined the Transport and General Workers' Union before the end of 1922, although its membership had originally voted not to join the amalgamation earlier in the year. It was therefore not actually a founder member of the TGWU ...