(1) The lingering stereotype of a union member may still be the burly Teamster or longshoreman .(2) Back in Montreal, he got a job as a longshoreman at the Old Port.(3) The work ethic and commitment from the longshoremen and port management is superb.(4) Labour talks between longshoremen and shipping lines have failed after the union rejected the latest proposal in a dispute that has shut down West Coast ports at a cost of 2 billion dollars a day.(5) If the 10,000-strong longshoremen go on strike, ports from Seattle to San Diego could shut down, meaning a big jolt to the already floundering US economy.(6) They formed a union and hired themselves out to theatres much the way longshoremen are sent out to different ports.(7) Seventy years ago, a young truck driver named Malcom McLean found himself sitting on a New Jersey dock all day, waiting for a gang of slow-moving longshoremen to get around to unloading his rig.(8) Among the loudest critics are members of the port's powerful longshoremen 's union.(9) A week later, Port Au Prince longshoremen walked out in solidarity with the customs strike.(10) The trains will be met by more soldiers at dockside, who will work with longshoremen and contractors to put the tanks on a ship.(11) On Thursday the strike continued as other dock workers supported the striking longshoremen and refused to load ships at the terminal's wharf.(12) As a result, the jobs of 10 longshoremen who used to unload and tie up the unrefined sugar have already been eliminated.(13) Today, the port successfully specializes in handling various noncontainerized commodities and is one of the few ports on the U.S. East Coast where new longshoremen have been hired in recent years.(14) The MPA submission included a considerable financial commitment by the state and concessions from longshoremen and other port users.(15) Meanwhile, 200 ships up and down the West Coast, 10,000 longshoremen and about one million containers remain idled by this dispute.(16) Hundreds of dock workers clashed with police early Thursday morning in Charleston, South Carolina during a protest against the use of nonunion longshoremen to load a cargo ship.
