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.
President Bush?s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2009, is a slap in the face to America?s working families who are already struggling to get by in an economy sinking under the weight of this Administration?s disastrous policies.
Patriot Contract Services was notified by the U.S. Navy?s Military Sealift Command late last month that it was successful in its bid to operate two Special Mission Ships ?USNS Hayes and USNS Waters.
Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta this month called for a sweeping overhaul of federal maritime policy that would be centered in a revitalized Maritime Administration to preserve national economic strength.
American President Lines announced this month that it intends to shift its U.S.-flag C-11-type vessels (APL China, APL Korea, APL Philippines, APL Thailand, APL Singapore) to a new 38-day Pacific Coast Express service that will call Los Angeles, Oakland, Japan, Korea and three ports in North China.
Election of Officers and
Constitution Referendum
The required documentation for professional mariners just got a lot tougher.