SUP-contracted Patriot Contract Services was the successful bidder late last month to operate and maintain the Military Sealift Command?s Maritime prepositioning Force vessel USNS 1st Lt. Harry L. Martin.
West Coast Sailors
The maritime industry came out in force in Washington, D.C. on May 13, to increase Capitol Hill awareness of the importance of America?s maritime industry to the economic and national security of the United States...
Meeting in its Pre-Pri-mary Convention in San Jose, California, on April 14, delegates of the 2.1 million-member California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, endorsed Edmund G. ?Jerry? Brown for Governor citing his longtime pro labor record.
A history of the Sailors?Union of the Pacific, particularly one marking its 125th anniversary, cannot begin without a preface: the conditions seamen worked under during the latter half of the 19th century.
On March 19, an ad hoc coalition, including the Sailors? Union, submitted testimony to House Appropriation?s Sub-Committee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies on the importance of sustained Congressional funding for food aid.
At a ceremony on February 17, at San
Francisco?s Pier 9, officiated by Captain Peter McIsaac, Port Agent for the Pilots, the Drake was christened by Monique Moyer, Executive Director of the Port of San Francisco
The Sailors? Union crewed another APL Marine Services vessel when the APL Turquoise was flagged from Singapore to United States registry on December 29, in Charleston, South Carolina.
SUP-contracted Matson Navigation Company this month won a decisive victory in federal court which saved the roll-on/roll-off, lift-on/lift-off vessel Mokihana from being banned from the domestic (Jones Act) trades.
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Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, speaking at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., singled out the achievements of the merchant marine.
Among the Union's objectives is "to support a journal which shall voice the sentiments of the seafaring class, and through its columns seek to maintain the knowledge of and interest in maritime affairs." The first issue of the West Coast Sailors, in June of 1937, noted that "Common sense, fearlessly applied, brings success to a Union."