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A white woman from the private boat attempted to pull the attackers off the co-captain. A black man intervened to hold people off and another man held the co-captain back as multiple people pacified the original attacker. One of the white assailants appeared to punch the 16-year-old white dock worker who had driven the co-captain to the dock.
Ziggy is Frank Sobotka's son and Nick's cousin. He is a Baltimore dock worker and is involved in his father's stevedores union, but is also involved in criminal activity.. Like most of the dock workers, Ziggy frequents Delores' bar, where he amuses the other customers with his drunken antics, such as publicly exposing him
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 ...
Top-scale port workers now earn a base pay of $39 an hour, or just over $81,000 a year. But with overtime and other benefits, some can make in excess of $200,000 annually.
The 1895 New Orleans dockworkers massacre was an attack against black, non-union dockworkers by unionized white workers on March 11 and 12, 1895. The mob killed six black workers. The incident had its roots in both economic pressure and racial hatred.
An office worker says their coworker has an unusual habit: removing her shoes and going barefoot while at work. In a post shared to Reddit, an anonymous intern writes that she began her current ...
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 ...
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) is a North American labor union representing longshore workers along the East Coast of the United States and Canada, the Gulf Coast, the Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, and inland waterways; on the West Coast, the dominant union is the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. The ILA has ...