Unemployment figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released on December 5, show a mind-numbing 533,000 jobs lost in November, the largest monthly jobs loss in 34 years.
West Coast Sailors
Chevron Shipping Company added another vessel to its growing U.S.-flag operation this month when the California Voyager joined the fleet.
The future growth and viability of the U.S.-flag fleet and the jobs of American maritime workers in all segments of our industry depend heavily and directly on the election of Senator Barack Obama.
At the request of the maritime Unions ?SUP, MM&P, MEBA, ILA and ILWU? affiliated with the AFL-CIO?s TTD, Laura Moskowitz, staff attorney for the Oakland, California-based National Employment Law Project, testified on September 17 before the House Committee on Homeland Security?s Subcommittee on Border, Maritime and Counterterrorism chaired by Representative Loretta Sanchez (D-California).
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they?ll likely change federal law to make it easier for workers to Unionize...
After 18 protracted and often contentious bargaining sessions plus many Union caucuses, the Sailors? Union, MFOW and SIU-Marine Cooks, successfully concluded negotiations with Matson Navigation Company.
While negotiations between the SUP, MFOW, and SIU-Marine Cooks and Matson Navigation Company are ongoing, no significant headway has been made.
Legislation that would provide long overdue compensation to U.S. merchant marine veterans of World War II remains bottled-up in the Senate Veterans? Affairs Committee; ?The Belated Thank You to the Merchant Mariners of World War II Act? (S.961).
A maritime security regime is judged not only on how effectively it protects the workplace from potential terrorists acts, but what affect the security regime has on the efficiency of the maritime transportation system that provides our livelihood...
A key international agency ruled on March 19, that the Bush Administration?s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is denying workers? rights in violation of international labor standards.
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."