[July 4th]

I heard on the news that these guys make 6-figures easy. Someone please explain the duties of a longshoreman.

[A Navy Vet]

"Someone please explain the duties of a longshoreman."

They operate cranes and forklifts. Other than that, they mostly threatened to strike every few years like professional sports players. I have a female in-law who joined their union back around 1990 at over $60,000 a year to move boxes around. She's well over six figure now for doing the same arranging. Nice gal, though.

[A CA Guy]

They vary. Clerks used to go on ships up and down ladders, but today sit at the computer all day. In the 70'2 my sister's ex made $70,000. If he wanted to cut his scheduel down he would still make $156,000 and if he worked nights, it was possible to make $250,000 perhaps.

Many of those jobs will be automated, so they try to grab the big bucks while they can, but they are no poor.

New folks going in don't make near that money.
That's about all I know.