Volume 25… Number 10… March 17, 20201 STORIES COVERED Notice to the MM&P Community Regarding COVID-19 Safety Measures MITAGS WEST Closed Until April 24 In This Issue: Military Sealift Command Memorandum on Force Health Protection Measures Impact of COVID-19 on Mariner Credentialing Program NOAA To Suspend Sailing Operations for 30 Days Pentagon To Deploy Hospital […]

Volume 25… Number 10… March 10, 2020 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: MM&P Urges Congress to Help Mariners Forced to Remain on Bouchard Tugs for Months Without Pay TTD Celebrates 30 Years of Advocacy on Behalf of Transportation Workers, 100th Anniversary of the Jones Act AFL-CIO Goes to Court to Block New National Labor Relations […]

Volume 25… Number 9… March 3, 2020 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Navy, MSC, Release New COVID-19 Command Response Plan, Medical Guidance Container Volumes Fall at US Ports White House Advances Plan That Could Take Union Rights Away From Civil Service Mariners Good News: Congress Clears World War II Mariner Legislation Plus: Income Growth Slowed […]

Volume 25… Number 8… Feb. 25, 2020 STORIES COVERED Maritime Advisory: Labor Board Steamrolls Workers to Favor Business, Reversing Decades of Legal Precedent Also in This Issue: Coronavirus Update Defense Think Tank Calls for New Maritime Strategy New Issue of The Master, Mate & Pilot Now Online After Slashing Ferry System Budget, Alaska To Contract […]

Volume 25… Number 7… Feb. 18, 2020 STORIES COVERED Maritime Advisory: Authorities Warn of Mines in Southern Red Sea, Maritime Boundary Between Saudi Arabia and Yemen In This Issue: Alaskans Protest Draconian Cuts to Ferry System, End of Service to Local Communities International Unions Seek Meeting With Panama Canal Administrator Over Tug Captains’ Working Conditions […]

Volume 25… Number 6… Feb. 11, 2020 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Administration May Deny Union Rights to Civil Service Mariners President’s Fiscal Year 2021 Budget: Some Good News and Some Bad News for Maritime Impact of Coronavirus Grows as Number of Cases Increases Military Sealift Command Issues Fleet Update on Coronavirus Protection Measures Also: […]

Volume 25… Number 5… Feb. 4, 2020 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Maritime Advisory on Novel Coronavirus Also: Number of US Workers Represented by Unions Remained Steady in 2019 AT&T Saves Big Under New Tax Law, But Still Cuts Thousands of Jobs in the US American Manufacturing Sees Biggest Drop in More Than a Decade […]

Volume 25… Number 4… Jan. 28, 2020 STORIES COVERED Maritime Alert: Authorities Issue Guidance on New Coronavirus Strain: “Protect Yourself and Others From Getting Sick” Also in This Issue: India’s Prohibition on Single-Use Plastics on Ships Sets Stage for Nationwide Ban Strategy to Buttress U.S.-Flag Fleet Will Be Ready Next Month, Government Watchdog Says Maritime […]

Volume 25… Number 3… Jan. 21, 2020 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: Matson’s LURLINE Makes Maiden Port Call in Hawaii National Maritime Center to End Walk-In Exams at RECs US Says Bouchard Must Compensate Whistleblower Whose Brother Died in Barge Explosion High Court in Italy Upholds Release of German Rescue Ship Captain Alaska Marine Highway […]

Volume 25… Number 2… Jan. 14, 2020 STORIES COVERED In This Issue: US Issues New Maritime Advisory on Tensions With Iran Russian Spy Ship Comes Within 180 Feet of US Destroyer in Arabian Sea Also: Unions to Baseball Commissioner: “Reject Plan to Build Stadium at Port of Oakland” Washington State Ferries Wins Federal Grant for […]