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Originally Posted by CFrance

According to the International Longshoreman Association, which included 14,500 union members in 2013, longshoremen earn $20 per hour at entry-level, as of April 2013. The ILA states that after obtaining six years of experience, longshoremen in the union are paid $35 per hour, as of April 2013.

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They can become longshoremen with a high school education. My son is a merchant marine with a college degree. He worked as an able bodied seaman before landing his first job as a deck officer on an outsourced naval supply ship. He will tell you how difficult that able bodied job was physically, and how much harder the longshoreman's job is. It is telling that there are only 14,000 of them. You would have no goods if it weren't for the people who do this back-breaking work.

I haven't heard anyone on this forum label AlL big corporations as greedy. Just the ones that truly are, and these statements were backed up with facts.

Well said.