What's the difference between teamster and wagoner?

Teamster


Definition:

  • (n.) One who drives a team.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To determine occupational mortality in the Central States Teamster population, all death certificates for a three-month period in 1976 were collected and coded.
  • (2) We conducted a case-control study of lung cancer deaths in the Teamsters Union to compare the risk of different occupations within the teamsters, after controlling for smoking and other confounders.
  • (3) If passed, a similar proposal could be taken up by teamsters in Oakland, California.
  • (4) Seattle drivers pushing for the legislation to pass belong to App-Based Drivers Association, ABDA, and are likely to join the Seattle Teamsters Local 117 union if it passes.
  • (5) This settlement speaks to the establishment of drivers’ associations,” said Rome Aloise, president of Teamsters Joint Council 7.
  • (6) Dawn Gearhart, policy coordinator for the Seattle Teamsters local, suggests that the fact that Seattle drivers are organizing has already made a difference.
  • (7) Chinese-produced auto parts could account for more than a majority of a car’s parts and still get sweetheart treatment.” James P Hoffa, the Teamsters president, called it a “bad deal”, saying: “TPP backers like to insist it will result in new work for Americans, although they can never quite explain how.” Numerous environmental groups including Greenpeace and Food and Water Watch, criticized the deal, with Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth, calling it “a frontal assault on environmental and climate safeguards”.
  • (8) Today Jimmy Hoffa (the Teamsters union leader), Richard Daley (the Chicago mayor) and Martin Luther King (the Southern Christian Leadership Conference head) all carry the names and job titles their fathers did; 5% of senators are doing the jobs their daddies did; and the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is herself a congressman's daughter.
  • (9) Overall, our results suggest that diesel truck drivers have an excess risk of lung cancer compared to other teamsters in jobs outside the trucking industry.
  • (10) You farm families, and teachers, and Teamsters, and cops, and cooks.
  • (11) Seattle experiment Both Uber and the Teamsters have some experience with the new kind of organizing that could arise from the O’Connor settlement.
  • (12) Schulberg's hatred for labour racketeering, the source of his deep empathy for the longshoremen in On the Waterfront, led in 1960 to an invitation from Robert Kennedy to write a script based on Kennedy's The Enemy Within, an account of his legal war against Jimmy Hoffa and racketeering in the Teamsters union.
  • (13) The Teamsters have also been organizing Uber drivers in Seattle, and hope to start the process of collective bargaining soon, thanks to the passage of local legislation similar to the now-defunct California state bill.
  • (14) Work history data were also obtained from the Teamsters Union.
  • (15) But on Friday afternoon, the Teamsters union announced that it was launching a campaign to organize Uber drivers in California, possibly through the very drivers’ associations that Uber has agreed to form.
  • (16) A retired teamster with abdominal pain and anemia was found to have lead intoxication presumably due to and old bullet in his ankle.
  • (17) It’s big business for the Teamsters... if they can secure more members paying them $400 a year that’s business going into Jimmy Hoffa’s coffers.” Falling fuel prices had made little difference to National Express’s profits, he said, due to hedging, although Finch said it could mean a £5m difference in 2015.
  • (18) We previously reported that long-term truck drivers and mechanics in the Teamsters Union had higher lung cancer risks than Teamsters outside the trucking industry.
  • (19) But Rolf is quick to say that many others in Seattle’s thriving progressive community were key to those successes: the United Food and Commercial Workers, the Teamsters, OneAmerica (an immigrant advocacy group), Casa Latina, Moms Rising, the city and state labor council, and Kshama Sawant, a Socialist City Council member.
  • (20) Finch was forthright in dismissing claims from the Teamsters that employees in the US were being prevented from organising, with the union led by Jimmy Hoffa Jr expected to renew its campaign ahead of the company AGM in May.

Wagoner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.
  • (n.) The constellation Charles's Wain, or Ursa Major. See Ursa major, under Ursa.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You wrote I Will Always Love You for Porter Wagoner, even though he had sued you.
  • (2) The danger is, in the face of western criticism and in the strong belief they have done more than most of their neighbours to be progressive, that they will now circle the wagons.
  • (3) Samples of fresh grass, wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in a stack silo and cut with either a cylinder-type forage harvester (11.3 mm of length cut) or a self-loading wagon (42.4 mm of length cut), wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in large round bales, and grass hay were obtained from the same field and used for determination of DM and CP degradability.
  • (4) Tractors accounted for one half of these machinery-related deaths, followed by farm wagons, combines, and forklifts.
  • (5) Individuals have decided to abandon their own families and jump on the Mandela wagon.
  • (6) Rail privatisation also saw the end of much domestic locomotive, wagon and carriage building – more workers on the scrapheap, more imports to further transform the balance of payments into a horror story.
  • (7) Although Knoller and the other young people in the wagon took it in turns to sit and stand, their efforts proved insufficient.
  • (8) "The meaning of the elections is: Italy can play a role; Italy is not the last wheel of the wagon; Italy is not the bottom of the class.
  • (9) The train now trundles through silent stations, its wagons free of the crowds of men, women and children who once clung to roofs and ladders.
  • (10) "The trains had 10 wagons and 100 people squeezed into each one," he says.
  • (11) If the wagons do start rolling in, I think there will be a massive upsurge,” he says.
  • (12) Nato thought better of hitching its wagon to the star of the hot-headed Georgian president.
  • (13) Gulnara Suleymanova and her family of five live in a wagon behind Baku’s prestigious new sports stadium, built especially for next month’s European Games.
  • (14) The wounded were being loaded into wagons; Wilfred managed to scramble up.
  • (15) If you then get the right of the party behaving in that way, that’s when you get real trouble and that’s the risk we’ve got at the moment: that there are some in the party all circling the wagon against Jeremy’s campaign.
  • (16) Secret Trump voters reverse their support: 'He seems to be insane' Read more As the Washington pundits and pollsters wrote them off, there was a sense of circling the wagons.
  • (17) She had become Snowflake’s unofficial welcome wagon, local therapist and advocate.
  • (18) "When resources are tight and all our inclinations are to pull the corporate wagons into a circle and fight to defend our own vested interests, that is exactly the time when we need to be at our boldest and most imaginative," he said.
  • (19) He was bundled into a wooden box which Roland had built specially for the job and then carried in a hand wagon to his Audi 8 car.
  • (20) 5.48pm BST Summary of today's events: - 196 bodies being stored in refrigerated railway wagons in Torez.

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