| They formed a union and hired themselves out to theatres much the way longshoremen are sent out to different ports. |
| A week later, Port Au Prince longshoremen walked out in solidarity with the customs strike. |
| Does this scenario sound like the 2002 dockworker dispute at West Coast ports prompted by lockouts of longshoremen? |
| Meanwhile, 200 ships up and down the West Coast, 10,000 longshoremen and about one million containers remain idled by this dispute. |
| The trains will be met by more soldiers at dockside, who will work with longshoremen and contractors to put the tanks on a ship. |
| Talks between longshoremen and shipping lines had ended when the union rejected the latest contract proposal. |
