It was introduced in 1986--ostensibly to avert a strike by dock workers over the shift to containerisation.

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For nearly two weeks, hundreds of the city's dock workers have been on strike, crippling the world's third-busiest container port.

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On eight of the 11 occasions when the act has been invoked in cases involving dock workers, the dispute re-emerged after 80 days.

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"The dock workers' situation is very hard, " Mr. Wong says.

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But before you try to figure out what seamen and dock workers were doing in Hollywood, know this: The earliest movies were made on the East Coast, according to Myrl Schreibman, a producer and University of California, Los Angeles film professor.

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About 1, 000 workers lost their jobs at the ITV Digital call centre in Pembroke Dock while almost 1, 000 people are being laid off by the Dewhirst clothing company at their factories in Swansea, Cardigan and Fishguard.

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She did not say when the handover would occur, but reporters saw Sharyn Hakken leaving the dock of Havana's Hemingway Marina in the back seat of a Cuban government vehicle and workers later said that all four Hakkens had been taken away.

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