[VOA]

Workers who unload ships commonly earn more than $90,000 a year.

Absolutely true; saw in The Los Angeles Times a few years ago a story about
a crane operator was making over $100I and was looking for more.
Oh, and nepotism was a big part of the brew.
Bet these guys are secretly praying for the Republicans to kill the death tax...

What was I thinking? If you're virtually guaranteed that one (or more) of your offspring
will inherit a >$100K job AND you don't have to worry about paying their college tuition
who's worried about a death tax?

(And no flames about this being the carping of some elitist; my dad was a union worker
in an oil refinery and I did farm work as part of my collegiate "experience".)

[B4Ranch]

I wonder how many hundreds of millions of tons products that this crane operator handles in a year. To me this is like paying military pay for our pilots to fly aircraft worth 20 or 30 million dollars when civilian pilots make ten times the pay for half the hours. $100,000 grand is a small price for the experience these guys have.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I did farm work as part of my collegiate "experience

As I did also!

It was a great learning experience but I ate a lot of dirt!