A person employed at a port to load and unload ships.
the waterside workers refused to load pig iron for Japan in 1938
Example sentencesExamples
- He was a waterside worker who was killed in an industrial accident.
- The NSW Court of Appeal has found a Commonwealth authority breached its duty of care to waterside workers.
- The New Zealand Federation of Labour tried to expel the waterside workers' union.
- The waterside workers eventually won all the conditions they had sought.
- The waterside workers are protesting against the use of contract labour to load logs onto ships.
- Australian waterside workers placed bans on loading Dutch ships they suspected were carrying arms to be used against the Indonesian revolutionaries.
- He failed to offer proof that the incidents of theft he alleged were in fact committed by waterside workers.
- Currently waterside workers accrue five weeks annual leave per year.
- There is a culture that goes with being a waterside worker.
- Waterside workers announced they would instigate safety bans on shipments of raw asbestos coming into the country, effective immediately.