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Crew of USNS Mclean Rescues Two from Sinking Boat Industry’S Highest Honor to Rep Vol. 51, No. 3 May — June 2015 The International Marine Division of ILA/AFL-CIO Official Voice of the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots Crew of USNS McLean Rescues Two From Sinking Boat Industry’s Highest Honor to Rep. John Garamendi Rep. Duncan Hunter Works to Boost MSP Funding Photos From Great Lakes, the South America Run, Washington State Table of Contents The Master, Mate & Pilot is the official voice of the International Vol. 51, No. 3 May — June 2015 Organization of Masters, Letter From the President 1 Mates & Pilots (International Now that the flag-of-convenience model has established primacy on the world stage, Marine Division of the ILA), the defense of cabotage laws has become the last bastion of the dwindling national- AFL-CIO. © 2015 IOMMP. flag fleets. The Master, Mate & Pilot (ISSN 0025-5033) is published News Briefs 2 bimonthly by the International Organization of Masters, Mates Crew of USNS William McLean rescues two from sinking sailboat; representatives of & Pilots. MM&P Headquarters: U.S.-flag fleet urge Congress to maintain U.S. jobs, ships, in food aid reform; maritime 700 Maritime Blvd., Suite B, unions “collectively engaged in relentless effort to keep the U.S. flag afloat,” MM&P Linthicum Heights, MD 21090-1953. President tells merchant marine veterans; greetings from MV Green Point; Washington Phone: (410) 850-8700 State Ferry system launches MV Samish; photos from MM&P members on the Great E-mail: [email protected] Lakes; Matson and The Pasha Group complete acquisition of Horizon Lines vessels with Internet: www.bridgedeck.org MM&P jobs secured; Rep. Duncan Hunter introduces legislation to increase Maritime Periodicals Postage Paid at Security Program funding. Elkridge, MD and additional offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Master, Interview 25 Mate & Pilot, 700 Maritime Blvd., Suite B, Linthicum Meet First Officer Paulina Czernek, a member of MM&P’s new Atlantic Maritime Heights, MD 21090-1953 Group, who sails for Statue Cruises. Don Marcus Chairman, Editorial Board News From Headquarters 26 Lisa Rosenthal Communications Director “To protect our interests as mariners, it is essential that we be involved in the regulatory INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS process: once regulations have been adopted and incorporated into international Don Marcus, President treaties or conventions, it is too late to influence their effect on the industry,” says Steven Werse, Secretary-Treasurer MM&P Pilots Group Vice President George Quick. VICE PRESIDENTS David H. Boatner, Offshore Pacific News From MITAGS 29 Wayne Farthing, Offshore Gulf Don Josberger, Offshore Atlantic Congratulations recent graduates of the Chief Mate/Master Program. C. Michael Murray, United Inland George A. Quick, Pilots Randall H. Rockwood, FEMG MM&P Pensioners 30 Ron Tucker, Atlantic Maritime MM&P Health & Benefit Plans 31 MM&P Directory 33 Cross’d the Final Bar 37 Printed on recycled paper using Thank You Contributors to the PCF! 39 vegetable-based inks and 100% wind power. Vol. 51, No. 3 May — June 2015 The International Marine Division of ILA/AFL-CIO About the Cover Connect with Us! Facebook.com/IOMMP Matson’s Kauai departing MM&P is on Facebook, Twitter Official Voice of the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots COSCO Nantong Shipyard and YouTube. Like us. Follow @MMP_Union with Captain John Lutey us. Re-post and re-tweet. Every and Chief Officer time you do, you help MM&P MastersMatesPilots Dan Mello. build an essential online Crew of USNS McLean Rescues Two From Sinking Boat community of members and allies. Connect with us today. And Industry’s Highest Honor to Rep. John Garamendi — Photo Scott Hauck, Matson Rep. Duncan Hunter Works to Boost MSP Funding if you have news or photos you want to share with everyone, Photos From Great Lakes, the South America Run, Washington State send us an e-mail at: [email protected]. FROM THE PRESIDENT The Last Citadel The fight to preserve Union Brothers and Sisters: the national-flag fleets s we go to press, the fate of the Trans-Pacific Partnership is now centered on (TPP) trade agreement and “fast-track” authority to the Jones Act in the United States and A ramrod that deal down the throats of American taxpay- like cabotage laws ers hangs in the balance. in other countries. There should be no surprise if the advocates of global free Congressman John trade get their way because the U.S. Congress is awash with Garamendi, shown cash from corporations that are shelling out money for influ- here with MM&P President Don Marcus, ence but take no responsibility. So as we await the outcome has long been among of the most recent tug of war in Congress, it is interesting to the leading defenders review where we stand in the field of international shipping. of the Jones Act and After all, shipping was the first U.S. industry to face truly global American merchant competition. mariners. The status of the U.S. Merchant Marine is clear, with eighty On the contrary, the FOC system is here to stay. By abandon- U.S.-flag ships engaged in international trade carrying less ing their citizen mariners, the national flags that remain are than two percent of our international seaborne commerce. The largely becoming pale versions of that same business model. beneficial effects of a “level playing field,” “free competition” and Of most significance to me in Perth was that the focus of the “deregulation” as touted by global corporate interests have not traditional maritime nations’ delegations at the ITF is now shift- been experienced by American seafarers or by U.S.-flag interna- ing to preserving what is left of national cabotage laws. While tional carriers. refusing to recognize defeat in the FOC sphere and re-doubling This experience is not unique to U.S. mariners. In 1948 in efforts to see fair compensation and working conditions for FOC Oslo, Norway, a campaign against flag-of-convenience (FOC) mariners, the ITF is now rallying behind the last barricade of the vessels was started at the Congress of the International Transport national flag: cabotage laws. Workers Federation (ITF). Maritime labor—longshoremen and Nowhere is that fight more poignant than in Australia, where seafarers—from the traditional maritime nations began with commercial shipbuilding is virtually a thing of the past and great fanfare the campaign that was intended to drive “runaway” where national-flag deep sea merchant vessels are on the road ship owners back to the national flag. to extinction. While the offshore oil and gas industry currently Today, almost seventy years later, the maritime industry is provides employment for the country’s citizen mariners, the dominated by FOC vessels and second registry vessels. Even future of the Australian Merchant Navy, like that of many other where national-flag vessels from the traditional maritime nations nations with proud maritime traditions, including our own, is still exist in significant numbers, the vast majority of the unli- at stake. It is worth considering that in Norway there are now censed crew members and most of the licensed personnel have discussions about allowing Norwegian second registry vessels to no connection to the national flag other than the origin of their operate in Norwegian territorial waters. Similarly, in India, the seafaring documents government is considering easing the national cabotage laws to Globalization of the maritime industry has not brought allow the trans-shipment of containers between domestic ports. a renaissance to the traditional maritime nations. It has not We are all aware of what is going on north of the border, where brought prosperity to the vast number of ocean carriers. A Canadian mariners are fighting to preserve their cabotage laws relentless driving down of costs has resulted, with the concentra- against a sneak attack brought about by the Comprehensive tion of shipping interests in a handful of global corporations, in a Trade and Economic Agreement (CETA) between the European constant search for cheaper labor, smaller crews and larger ships! Union and Canada. All hail free trade!! Of course, the battle to preserve national cabotage laws is Last month at a series of meetings in Perth, Western Australia, being fought against the same forces that brought us the FOC I had the opportunity to participate as an MM&P delegate in the system, TPP, CETA and, of course, the North American Free most recent discussions of the ITF. While the efforts and accom- Trade Act (NAFTA). These forces, the global plutocrats, started plishments of the ITF and its affiliated organizations—thanks with the high seas, wanted larger playing fields than mere largely to the longshoremen, or “dockers,” in establishing baseline nation-states, and thus have outsourced our ocean shipping and wage and working conditions for FOC mariners—are achieve- manufacturing industries. More recently, these same plutocrats ments to take great pride in, there has been no general return of are in the process of outsourcing technical services, customer carriers to the national flags as intended by the founders of the FOC campaign at the 1948 Oslo Congress. continued on page 2 The Master, Mate & Pilot - 1 - May - June 2015 NEWS BRIEFS From the President, continued from page 1 merchant marine veterans of World War II are still seeking service and almost any other job that can be situated overseas in recognition for their service seventy years after the fact—we are our electronic age. not yet forgotten in the Department of Defense, in Congress The attacks against the Jones Act, when taken in the global and, we like to think, in the Obama Administration. While that context, are simply the U.S. version of what is going on else- may be a stretch in the last instance, so long as the potential for where.
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