Who are you to say what anyone is worth?
If you don't think Longshoremen are worth their pay then you don't remember the lockout last year that (sadly) almost brought the country's economy to it's knees...I'd say that's a pretty compelling argument FOR their worth.
The GOP anti-union attitude is embarrassing idiocy.
Who says you're skills/service are worth the rest of us having to pay your 401k contributions?
I have a (non-union) "service" business. Though I do business with all types of people, the majority of the "blue collar" people I do business with are union members (because they can afford it) ...almost -0- non-union (because they can't afford it).
Much as you may not like it, your import was probably off loaded and shipped via union labor.
Pardon me if you interpreted my statements as defining human worth. My bad. I meant to say that I do put a price (my dollars at work) on what certain tasks are worth. Whatever entity (man or machine) pulls levers at a dock side, does not deserve $110,000 per year. That task is not worth that much. There are many entities who would do it better, for much less, but unions lock them out.
Same with clerk tasks.
Nobody pays my contributions, other than me. That said, my dollars go to whoever produces most efficiently. As in, non-union companies.
That is a problem, we will remedy soon. Us producers are sick of paying lever-pullers more than we make.