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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 ...
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.
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.
In Houston, New Orleans, and other major docks along the Gulf Coast, strikes and other labor conflict had been a regular annual occurrence through the 1930s. [1] The 1934 West Coast waterfront strike of the previous summer, involving workers from both the ILA and the International Seamen's Union, had developed into a general strike in San Francisco, with encouraging results for dock workers.
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 ...
The walkout represents the first East Coast dock strike since 1977. ... West Coast port workers are making more than $116,000 a year, versus $81,000 for their counterparts in the East. The ILA's ...
Top-scale longshore workers earn a base pay of $39 an hour. Republican lawmakers and business groups, including the National Assn. of Manufacturers, urged Biden to apply the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act ...
The Justice Department has lost two cases against Daggett, in which he was accused of being an associate of the Genovese crime family. [9] In testimony at a trial in 2005, George Barone, a former Genovese "soldier" who was a Mafia enforcer before turning state's evidence, testified that Daggett was controlled by the Mafia; in his own testimony, Daggett depicted himself as a victim of the Mafia ...