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A dock worker who was attacked in a shocking riverfront brawl in Montgomery, Alabama, almost two months ago has now spoken out about the incident.. Speaking on ABC’s “Good Morning America ...
One of the white assailants appeared to punch the 16-year-old white dock worker who had driven the co-captain to the dock. [citation needed] [clarification needed] The initial assault was broken up in less than a minute. Arguments and fights with Harriott II workers continued. A black teenager was filmed swimming across the river to the dock.
The three-day dockworker strike that crippled East and Gulf Coast ports put a spotlight on one of America's most important jobs: loading and unloading the billions of products — from food to ...
In a written deposition to Montgomery police, filed hours after he was attacked at the city’s riverfront last weekend, dock worker Damien Pickett said he “hung on for dear life” as he was ...
Union workers had just displayed racial unity in the general strike, even in the face of provocations and harassment from the strongly anti-union New Orleans Times-Democrat, for one example. [ 2 ] But this time, under pressure, a "race to the bottom" bidding war between white and black groups developed into violence.
The Simon Jones Memorial Campaign was set up after casual dock worker Simon Jones was decapitated in an industrial accident on 24 April 1998. He was working for Euromin on the south coast of England. The campaign argues that failure to train Simon for a dangerous job was tantamount to murder and that the pursuit of profit was put ahead of life.
A week ago, few outside the labor movement or shipping industry knew Harold Daggett, the tough-talking, colorful head of the union now on strike at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts.
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 ...