USNS MEDGAR EVERS Underway Replenishment

Feb 15, 2022 | Federal Employee Membership Group NEWS Highlights

Thank you for allowing us to share this video clip, Captain Streeper! The video is taken aboard the USNS MEDGAR EVERS (T-AKE-13) during an underway replenishment with the USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH....

Wheelhouse Weekly, February 8, 2022

Feb 9, 2022 | MM&P Wheelhouse Weekly

Volume 28… Number 6…February 8, 2022 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Administration Issues Plan To Promote Union Membership Congressman Honors Merchant Mariners in Speech on House Floor International Shipping Group Calls Seafarer Wellbeing “an Unintended Casualty of...

ITF PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST

Feb 3, 2022 | News

The International Transport Workers’ Federation is announcing its first-ever photography contest. The contest aims to showcase the triumphs, challenges and sheer hard work of millions of transport workers around the world, in all sectors, industries and supply chains....

“US MARITIME HIGHWAY COALITION” FORMED TO PROMOTE NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNION MEMBERS

Feb 3, 2022 | News

MM&P has joined forces with other maritime unions and labor groups to advocate for jobs in new and emerging energy-generation platforms, such as windfarms, that rely on coastwise shipping. The coalition will advocate before the administration and Congress for new...

UNIONS SLAM ESTABLISHMENT OF FLAG-OF-CONVENIENCE SHIP REGISTRY IN US VIRGIN ISLANDS

Feb 3, 2022 | News

A broad coalition of maritime and transportation unions has lined up in opposition to the establishment of a flag-of-convenience ship registry in the US Virgin Islands. FOC registries—also called “open registries”—allow shipowners to maximize their profitability by...