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the stevedoring
noun
A dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo, or in supervising such work.
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Petitioner, the general employer of the negligent winchman, argued that at the time of the accident the winchman was the borrowed servant of the stevedoring company, the longshoreman's employer.
But another viewpoint was offered two years ago by Sabato (Sal) Catucci, a legendary waterfront figure who operated the stevedoring company that ran the Red Hook docks in Brooklyn until 2011.
The report said the commission — often stalemated by differences between the two $43,500-a-year commissioners — abandoned background checks on the longshoremen who unload ships and the stevedoring companies that employ them, creating a critical breach in the nation's security web.
Stevedoring Co. v. Haverty, 272 U. S. 50, 52, 47 S. Ct. 19, 71 L. Ed. 157, we held that the word 'seamen' as used in section 33 included a stevedore engaged in the maritime work of stowing cargo upon a vessel, and that under the applicable provisions of the Employers' Liability Act, he could recover from the stevedoring company for an injury caused by the negligence of a fellow servant.
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The stevedores had underestimated themselves.
Lucky Strike sustained the stevedores and bridge builders.
The stevedores control the right and control of the N.Y.
The stevedore of New York is not like any other laborer.
("The Stevedores in Arles" anticipates nothing so much as strip-mall paintings on velvet).
6 mornings a week they would to down to the docks for the stevedore rollcall.
"If the trucks come in, we will be here in the stevedore business.
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