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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (26807)	1/6/2002 8:30:34 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 209892

Heck, this slob wouldn't mind just working part time <vbg> why can't they have this attitude in my industry >>Over the years, various shipping innovations have reduced the number of West Coast dockworkers to about 10,000 permanent longshoremen and 5,000 part-time workers. Those relatively low numbers mean that shipping companies do not object to the six-figure wages. Longshoremen's pay adds up to slightly more than 1 percent of the cargo value they handle -- costs that are "negligible," a top PMA official said.<< Wonder what traders at ENE pulled down before the ship sunk there ...hear that ENE was big into making a market for freight futures.