Maybe they were built with union labor.
Because of a fraction of a percent of CEO's have proven to be corrupt, you've turned your back on your free market allegience to managers over unions?
You're too emotional to be a conservative...wear your brown shirt proudly commie.
As someone who lives in Puget Sound, I would point out that you and I pay for the San Francisco Economic Bubble.
If you pay these guys $120,000 per year to do what is basically relatively unskilled labor, you and I pick up the cost at the Safeway checkout line.
If the rest of the country refuses to play the California Bay Area Economic Bubble Game, the San Francisco Real Estate Bubble will collapse as over-priced San Francisco real estate remains unsold.
It is not the responsibility of the rest of America to make it possible for San Franciscans to charge each other half a million dollars for a house and fifteen dollars for a cup of coffee with steamed milk in it.
If dockworkers can't afford to buy a $400,000 San Farncisco house, they are free to leave San Francisco, find a more affordable place to work and let San Francisco die as a port.
Puget Sound has lot's of very affordable housing within a reasonable communte of the Port of Seattle. Of course, these guys want $120,000 per year to unload ships here too.