as in stevedores
one who loads and unloads ships at a port
the longshoremen moved all of the fish into cold storage for shipment to the market
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Recent Examples of longshoremen
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.
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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
All 41 members of the Maritime Alliance, a group that includes port operating companies and shipping lines, voted for the contract, which covers the roughly 25,000 longshoremen who move containers on the East and Gulf Coasts.
—Peter Eavis, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Editors’ Picks With overtime and higher rates for working at night, longshoremen can earn well over $200,000 a year.
—Peter Eavis, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
The restaurant started in 1904 by serving lunches to the longshoremen who worked the Brooklyn docks.
—Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Dockworkers and longshoremen struck a tentative deal Wednesday night to avoid a damaging strike ahead of a looming January deadline.
—Sophia Vento, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
Tens of thousands of longshoremen could walk off the job from Maine to Texas next week if their union and management can’t resolve long-running contract issues.
—Taylor Giorno, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
Tens of thousands of longshoremen could walk off the job next week if their union and management can’t resolve long-running contract issues.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
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
All 41 members of the Maritime Alliance, a group that includes port operating companies and shipping lines, voted for the contract, which covers the roughly 25,000 longshoremen who move containers on the East and Gulf Coasts.
—Peter Eavis, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Editors’ Picks With overtime and higher rates for working at night, longshoremen can earn well over $200,000 a year.
—Peter Eavis, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
The restaurant started in 1904 by serving lunches to the longshoremen who worked the Brooklyn docks.
—Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Dockworkers and longshoremen struck a tentative deal Wednesday night to avoid a damaging strike ahead of a looming January deadline.
—Sophia Vento, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
Tens of thousands of longshoremen could walk off the job from Maine to Texas next week if their union and management can’t resolve long-running contract issues.
—Taylor Giorno, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
Tens of thousands of longshoremen could walk off the job next week if their union and management can’t resolve long-running contract issues.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Longshoremen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longshoremen. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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