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Mariners on Weeks Marine Dredges Choose MM&P Vol. 50, No. 5 Sept. - Oct. 2014 The International Marine Division of ILA/AFL-CIO Official Voice of the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots Mariners on Weeks Marine Dredges Choose MM&P Canada’s Cabotage Law Under Attack Crew of Kindra Lakes Tug Fights Fire on Railroad Bridge Crews of Manukai and USNS Byrd Rescue Mariners in Distress Table of Contents The Master, Mate & Pilot (ISSN 0025-5033) Vol. 50, No. 5 September - October 2014 is the official voice of the International Letter From the President 1 Organization International treaty that would gut Canada’s cabotage law underlines need for of Masters, vigilance on threats to Jones Act. Mates & Pilots (International Marine Division of the ILA), AFL-CIO. News Briefs 2 © 2014 IOMMP. Published bimonthly at Employees aboard Weeks Marine dredges choose MM&P, win first contract; U.S. MM&P Headquarters, maritime unions pledge support to Canada’s Merchant Navy in face of threats to 700 Maritime Blvd., Suite B, cabotage law; crew of Kindra Lakes Tug Morgan commended for fighting fire on Linthicum Heights, MD railroad bridge; crew of Matson’s Manukai saves three on sailboat in hurricane; 21090-1953. “Bravo Zulu” to civil service mariners aboard USNS Byrd; in Congressional Phone: (410) 850-8700 hearing, MM&P President presents joint union testimony on state of the U.S.-flag E-mail: [email protected] fleet. Internet: www.bridgedeck.org Periodicals postage paid at Elkridge, MD, and Washington Observer 17 additional offices. Per-ship funding levels under the Maritime Security Program (MSP) must be revised; POSTMASTER fight to preserve cargo preference shipments under food aid, Export-Import Bank, Please send changes to: set to continue in next Congress. The Master, Mate & Pilot 700 Maritime Blvd, Suite B Linthicum Heights, MD Feature Article 20 21090-1953 The introduction of tighter ECA requirements in 2015 could lead to an increase in Don Marcus loss of propulsion incidents, writes MM&P member Jeff Cowan. What are the risks Chairman, Editorial Board and what other options are available? Lisa Rosenthal Communications Director INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS MM&P Plans 22 Don Marcus, President Annual open enrollment for health plan; new additions to IRAP and 401(k) plan Steven Werse, Secretary-Treasurer fund line-ups. VICE PRESIDENTS David H. Boatner, Offshore Pacific Wayne Farthing, Offshore Gulf MM&P Pensioners 23 Don Josberger, Offshore Atlantic C. Michael Murray, United Inland George A. Quick, Pilots MM&P Directory 24 Randall H. Rockwood, FEMG News From MITAGS 28 Cross’d the Final Bar 29 Printed on recycled paper using Thank You PCF Contributors 31 vegetable-based inks and 100% wind power. Vol. 50, No. 5 Sept. - Oct. 2014 The International Marine Division of ILA/AFL-CIO About the Cover Connect with Us! Facebook.com/IOMMP Weeks Marine’s BE Lindholm docked off Tampa, Fla. The professional MM&P is on Facebook, Twitter Official Voice of the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots mariners who crew the company’s and YouTube. Like us. Follow @MMP_Union hopper dredges selected MM&P as us. Re-post and re-tweet. Every their bargaining agent and won their time you do, you help MM&P MastersMatesPilots first contract, all in the space of a year. build an essential online Mariners on Weeks Marine Dredges Choose MM&P community of members and allies. Connect with us today. And Canada’s Cabotage Law Under Attack — Photo by Zane Johnston Crew of Kindra Lakes Tug Fights Fire on Railroad Bridge if you have news or photos you want to share with everyone, Crews of Manukai and USNS Byrd Rescue Mariners in Distress send us an e-mail at: [email protected]. FROM THE PRESIDENT Woe, Canada! And the Global Marketplace Union Brothers and Sisters: he recent signing of the Canada-European Union: of “lower costs for the consumer,” cabotage is Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (“CETA”), attacked and will continue be attacked, while T while applauded by the government of Canadian Prime more wealth is concentrated in the hands of Minister Stephen Harper and leaders of the European Union, is global conglomerates. no cause for celebration for Canadian mariners, Canadian work- Along with the other U.S. maritime ers generally or their North American counterparts south of the unions, MM&P has condemned CETA border who are trying to provide for their families. and has offered full support to Canadian If this affront to national sovereignty is ratified by Canada’s maritime labor (see page 11). We believe Parliament and the nations of the European Union, there will be that the Canada-European Union: one more nail in the coffin, not only for what is left of the once Comprehensive Trade Agreement may not be ratified for reasons proud Canadian Merchant Navy, but also for the traditional con- unrelated to the maritime provisions of the agreement. We can cept of the national-flag merchant marine. only hope that this will be the case. As made known after the signing of the trade agreement: In the meantime we must work to ensure that our elected “[e]ach Party [to the agreement] shall permit international representatives don’t allow similar trade agreements to be maritime transport service suppliers of the other Party to provide inflicted on us by the “representatives” appointed to negotiate on feeder services between ports of that Party” and “[n]either Party “our” behalf. Please urge your congressmen to reject the secret may adopt or maintain measures requiring that all or part of any TTIP and TPP negotiations. As has been amply demonstrated in international cargo be transported exclusively by vessels regis- the twenty years since the passage of the North American Free tered in that Party or owned or controlled by nationals of that Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”), these agreements are not made for Par t y.” the benefit of the working men and women of the participating If ratified as drafted, say good bye to what is left of the nations. Great wealth is created for some, but the “trickle down” Canadian Merchant Navy, except for vessels carrying exclu- has yet to manifest itself. sively Canadian cargo between Canadian ports, and say hello to Concern for the economic well-being of the citizen–or the redoubled efforts to undermine the Jones Act. “commonweal” of the nation–does not spur many in Congress to Typical of “free trade” agreements, CETA negotiations were action. However, we must consider ourselves fortunate that there conducted in secret and the citizens, trade unions and other are still many in and out of Congress and in the government as interests not represented at the table were left first to speculate a whole who understand the implications to America’s national and then to scramble to deal with the results. defense of any weakening of the Jones Act: whether negotiated This should ring a bell: similar negotiations regarding our col- away in trade talks or inflicted by other means. lective future are now taking place in the so-called Transatlantic Toward that end MM&P has been assured that representatives Trade and Investment Partnership (“TTIP”) talks between the of the Maritime Administration are observers and/or are privy to United States and the European Union as well as the Trans- the TTIP and TPP negotiations. We have been assured that the Pacific Partnership Agreement (“TPP”) talks taking place Jones Act is non-negotiable. Again, as with the possible rejection between the United States and eight other Pacific Rim nations: of CETA, we can only hope that this is the case. Advocates of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Peru, Chile the U.S. Merchant Marine and of U.S. shipbuilding continue to and Vietnam. There are two common threads in all these trade defend our industry in Congress, in the Department of Defense, negotiations: at the U.S. Transportation Command and at the Department • the “partnerships” do not extend to the workers and labor of Transportation. This includes the vigorous voice of recently organizations of the participating nations, and confirmed Maritime Administrator Jaenichen. These voices, and • with regards to the maritime industry, cabotage provisions our own, must continue to be heard. like the Jones Act are prime targets. Industry voices were heard at the Sept. 10, 2014, U.S. In an environment in which any national measure to protect House of Representatives Subcommittee on Coast Guard and workers or the economic well-being of the common citizen is Maritime Transportation hearings entitled “The Status of the viewed as “a trade barrier,” the Jones Act and similar cabotage Merchant Marine.” Along with Niels Johnsen, Chairman/CEO of provisions are seen as nothing more than “protectionism.” Call it International Shipholding Corporation, Mark Tabbutt, Chairman whatever you want, the citizens of our country, Canada and every of Saltchuk Resources and Matthew Paxton, President of the other independent nation must demand that their governments Shipbuilders Council of America, I testified at these hearings. and appointed trade representatives do their jobs and take mea- sures to safeguard their well-being. Under the duplicitous banner continued on page 2 The Master, Mate & Pilot - 1 - September - October 2014 NEWS BRIEFS “Bravo Zulu” to Crew of USNS Richard E. Byrd The officers and crew of Military Sealift Command (MSC) ship USNS Richard E. Byrd have been commended by the head of U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet for the rescue of nine mariners adrift in the Gulf of Oman. The licensed deck officers aboard USNS Byrd, a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship, are represented by the Masters, Mates & Pilots. The master of the vessel is MM&P member Captain Daniel A. Glazier. The rescue took place on July 28, when crewmembers aboard Byrd picked up a distress call from a Yemeni-flagged cargo vessel, the Al-Saed, which had lost power and was taking on water.
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