"dock worker" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, you could use this phrase in the sentence: "The dock worker loaded the shipment onto the truck."
A typical casual labourer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the dock worker.
"A lot of cops drink in the club," said Erik Lopez, a dock worker.
He was neither Catholic nor the son of a dock worker, so he suffered.
But the dock worker gave him a number even lower than the one Weyerhaeuser had supplied.
A former Liverpool dock worker, McCluskey leads Britain's biggest union, with 1.6 million members.
Johnpaul Alvarez said a dock worker preparing to lower a pedestrian ramp suddenly fled backward, followed by waiting ferrygoers.
Irish dock workers manned batteries in Galveston.
Dock workers would become day traders.
** International Brotherhood of Pier, Wharf, and Dock Workers.
The New Yorker, January 4 , 1936P. 15 Feud between dock workers.
Dock workers, air-traffic controllers and others have called strikes.
