[Mr. Jeeves]

Kaiser Aluminum last week announced a deal to sell its Tacoma Tideflats smelter to the Port of Tacoma, which will likely flatten it to use the site as a container terminal; that smelter once employed more than 350 workers.

How many will the container terminal employ? Given the salraies earned by ILWU longshoremen ($80K+) this could be a net gain for the local economy.

[gcruse]

Unions and their goons drive up the cost of their labor to the point it becomes more productive to have it done out of the country. Then they wonder why their jobs go away. Funny how it works.