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All-american cruiseship bill clears Senate Commerce Comittee

The Senate comitte on Comerce, Science and Transportation on June 15 passed a bill that is designed to facilitate the entry of U

Ready Reserve Fleet contracts awarded by MarAd

Bum decision prompts protest by SUP company; Government stays the award.

Maritime industry group lists initiatives to grow U.S.-fleet flag

A strong U.S.-flags commercial merchant fleet is absolutely essential to ensuring U.S. national defense and economic security in

Fourth SUP-contracted LSMR christened in New Orleans

USNS Pililaau: the fifth of a series of seven Bob Hope-class, large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off being built for the Military

SUP ballots counted

Officers elected, amendments decided.

Floating sweatshops

Foreign-flag cruiseship working conditions exposed.

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Opportunities for qualified merchant mariners (MMC, TWIC, Passport), and especially Able Seafarers with offshore STCW credentials such as Basic Safety Training, Able Seafarer/Deck and Vessel Personnel with Designated Security Duties (VPDSD) have never been better.

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The Lookout of the Labor Movement

The origins of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific go back to March 6, 1885, when the Coast Seamen's Union was organized on the San Francisco waterfront by a group of three hundred sailors dissatisfied by the wages and conditions aboard ship that existed at that time. In 1886, the Steamship Sailors' Union was organized and in 1891 merged with the Coast Seamen's Union to form the Sailors' Union of the Pacific.

The Sailors' Union of the Pacific has been in continuous operation, through good times and bad, for over 129 years an achievement unequaled by any maritime union in the world.

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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."