Word: longshoremen
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...commission, headed by Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman, charged that mobsters are "increasingly using labor unions as a tool to obtain monopoly power in some industries." It said the Teamsters, the International Longshoremen's Association, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union and the Laborers' International Union are all "substantially influenced and/or controlled by organized crime...
Houck remembers Wilson well, and after a 40-year career as an electrical engineer and salesman, he has made it his mission to bring the Oxford Group's teachings to a new generation of recovering alcoholics. In the early 1970s, he started working with longshoremen on the Baltimore docks, and until recently, he traveled every six weeks or so, giving talks to members of 12-step programs, including A.A., around the country. Houck continues to provide counsel to recovering addicts who telephone from around the world. He still appears at meetings held within driving distance of his home in Towson...
National ID cards aren't here yet, but the Federal Government is about to give us a foretaste. Soon to appear: Transportation Worker Identity Cards (TWICs). Envisioned as a universal credential to be carried by everyone in the transportation industry, from airport ramp workers to truckers and longshoremen, they are a response to complaints that despite new security measures, the various IDs that many ports and other facilities use are too easy to steal or fake. The agency is ready to begin testing several types of cards at the ports of L.A.--Long Beach, Calif., and Philadelphia--Wilmington, Del., according...
...dirty and dangerous, as memorialized in the Marlon Brando movie On the Waterfront. Workers have struggled against shipping magnates and corrupt union bosses alike to improve working conditions and push full-time wages up to an average of $106,000 a year. But in the proud history of the longshoremen, this is surely the first time ports have been shut down to preserve the right of a few hundred unionized shipping clerks to keep using pencils and clipboards instead of computers and electronic scanners...