New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 21 - Miscellaneous
Chapter I - Waterfront Commission Of New York Harbor
Part 7 - Hiring Regulations For Registrants
General Provisions
Section 7.2 - Definitions

(a) Regular employees shall mean employees who, as individuals, are entitled to receive first priority of employment at a particular pier or waterfront terminal or with a particular employer.

(b) Supervisory employees shall mean employees who lead, manage and/or supervise other employees, and shall include but are not limited to foremen, assistant foremen, hatch foremen (also known as hatch bosses), dock foremen, stevedore foremen and gangwaymen. Supervisory employees at passenger ship terminals shall include clerk/checker dock bosses, chief clerks, baggage masters and/or those who oversee and direct checkers in the accounting and positioning of baggage for loading and/or discharge.

(c) Gang shall mean a group of longshoremen constituted into a working unit.

(d) Regular gang shall mean a gang which is entitled to receive first priority of employment at a particular pier or waterfront terminal.

(e) Regular-extra gang shall mean a gang which is entitled to receive employment at a particular pier or waterfront terminal after available regular gangs have been employed.

(f) Extra gang shall mean a regular or regular-extra gang not employed on a particular day by the employer listing it as a regular or regular-extra gang.

(g) Voluntary gang shall mean a gang established by the commission on its own initiative, where, in its opinion, such action will further the purposes of the Act.

(h) Section shall mean a geographical division of the port.

(i) Borough or area shall mean a geographical division of the port consisting of one or more sections.

(j) New pier shall mean any pier or terminal which has not regularly been in operation for the movement of waterborne freight within three calendar years prior to its opening.

(k) Reactivated pier shall mean any pier or terminal which has been in operation for the movement of waterborne freight within three calendar years of its reopening, including a newly constructed pier or terminal which has replaced one or more piers or terminals.

(l) Telecommunications system controller (TSC) shall mean a natural person, who is employed by the New York Shipping Association, Inc. and the International Longshoremen's Association, or by a joint board of the New York Shipping Association, Inc. and the International Longshoremen's Association, and who participates in the operation of the telecommunications hiring system (THS).

(m) Workday shall mean Monday through Sunday, for the purposes of the hiring procedures.

(n) Regular working day shall mean Monday through Friday (or Monday through Saturday, if hiring procedures are implemented which include Saturday as a "regular work day" in accordance with section 7.19 of this Part), exclusive of holidays, for the purpose of the hiring procedures.