| The trains will be met by more soldiers at dockside, who will work with longshoremen and contractors to put the tanks on a ship. |
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| Boys, you're puling nerds from the National Review for Christ sake, you're not longshoremen. |
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| At night, our brainy babe sports a bikini, hits the local dive, and does the naked frug in front of a bunch of drunken longshoremen. |
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| Add in a deserted docks scene with a bunch of cowering, villainous longshoremen, a runaway train and the inexplicable appearance of bats. |
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| On Thursday the strike continued as other dock workers supported the striking longshoremen and refused to load ships at the terminal's wharf. |
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| The work ethic and commitment from the longshoremen and port management is superb. |
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| As a result, the jobs of 10 longshoremen who used to unload and tie up the unrefined sugar have already been eliminated. |
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| Talks between longshoremen and shipping lines had ended when the union rejected the latest contract proposal. |
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| A week later, Port Au Prince longshoremen walked out in solidarity with the customs strike. |
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| Does this scenario sound like the 2002 dockworker dispute at West Coast ports prompted by lockouts of longshoremen? |
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| The MPA submission included a considerable financial commitment by the state and concessions from longshoremen and other port users. |
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| Meanwhile, 200 ships up and down the West Coast, 10,000 longshoremen and about one million containers remain idled by this dispute. |
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| They formed a union and hired themselves out to theatres much the way longshoremen are sent out to different ports. |
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| 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. |
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| However, he could do nothing but watch longshoremen with gloomy and weather-beaten faces unbearably slowly carrying boxes to the vessel. |
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| When he was writing A View from the Bridge, he lived with longshoremen in the hope that he could replicate their speech patterns. |
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| Do like the longshoremen from the nearby docks and get there early: John's closes at 3pm in the week and 4pm on Saturdays. |
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| What I find strange is that both sides seem to want to have more women working as longshoremen. |
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| The unions representing the longshoremen were prepared to continue loading the grain. |
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| Nine of these work stoppages have involved longshoremen and their employers. |
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| Like many other unskilled immigrants who arrived in Montreal, Irish workers often found employment as longshoremen or labourers at the docks. |
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| In the days before container ships, cargoes were handled by vast numbers of longshoremen, working mostly by hand. |
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| I used an example the other night where under our current system a handful of longshoremen went out on strike in the port of Vancouver. |
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| A number of longshoremen managed to escape on a ladder from the burning hold, but three crewmen died in the fire. |
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| On Saturday, as port operators began to move cargo without the use of the striking longshoremen, the strikers initiated mass pickets to stop them. |
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| A contract group of Italian longshoremen offloaded the ship over 2 days. |
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| By 1636, the accommodation ladder was lowered on the dock, and shortly thereafter officials, media, and hungry longshoremen started coming aboard. |
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| Most of the longshoremen employed by the Company are unionized. |
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| Computers may manage inventory control in transport operations, but the cargo containers still have to be taken on and off ships by longshoremen and transported by truck drivers and rail workers. |
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| Agreement in principle was approved by a strong majority of longshoremen. |
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| Port of Montreal longshoremen ratify new contract. |
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| Port of Montreal employers and longshoremen reach tentative agreement. |
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| In 1960, the West Coast longshoremen agreed to far-reaching automation that replaced inefficient break-bulk cargo, which relied on hooks to move the cargo, with containerized cargo, which relies on cranes. |
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| The longshoremen working on the docks have a long history of union activity, and we have proven, in the past, our ability to negotiate directly or through employer associations and come to an agreement with these unions. |
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| The government is putting forward certain elements that will cause an undue invasion of privacy for longshoremen at our ports rather than dealing with organized criminals in an effective way. |
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| This number includes our full-time employees as well as the equivalent man-year of the longshoremen whose services are retained under multi-employer jurisdictions as a complement to our employees. |
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| Violence by longshoremen against black men was especially fierce in the docks area. |
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| In fact, in today's economy, particularly in the federal arena, a handful of longshoremen could go on strike in Vancouver and a farmer and his family in Manitoba could lose their farm as a result of that. |
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| They are going to talk about the non-traditional work that occurs at the ports in terms of longshoremen and how to increase participation of women in that area. |
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| He may have the occasional aphasic moment, but he translates Horace, expounds on his anarchist forebears, and is eloquent in his memories of the struggle for a guaranteed annual income for longshoremen. |
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| Of the 560 longshoremen who normally work in Montreal harbour during the winter, barely 200 were called in sporadically during that period and those who did not work were not paid because this was an act of God. |
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| The longshoremen hold an unusually strong hand. |
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| Containerisation put many longshoremen out of a job. |
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| Many Cabo Verdeans work as merchant mariners or longshoremen in the major diasporic communities in Dakar, Senegal, southeastern New England, Rotterdam, and Lisbon. |
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| Longshoremen rank with teamsters in the lore of hard-nosed trade unionists and Hobsbawm preferred their leader's politics. |
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| Longshoremen have a rep for being heavy-drinking, two-fisted tough guys. |
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| Longshoremen began the job of tying up the ship and once the harbormaster had finished with the various paperwork, the long, tedious job of off-loading the cargo began. |
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| The Longshoremen were on strike, the cabs were on strike, and dumpsters were set on fire by masked youth battling police on front lines filled with tear gas and stun grenades. |
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