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Download Current Issue: 2021 SUMMER EDITION Vol. 57, No.2 Summer 2021 Official Voice of the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots Unions Tell White House How To Strengthen US-Flag Fleet MM&P Members March for Jobs and Labor Rights Armed Police Attack Panama Canal Workers The Master, Mate Table of Contents & Pilot is the official voice of Vol. 57, No. 2 Summer 2021 the International Organization of Masters, Mates & From the President 1 Pilots. With pandemic restrictions gradually being lifted, MM&P can once © 2021 IOMMP. again turn its attention to the industry issues of safe crewing levels, The Master, Mate & Pilot (ISSN workload, fatigue and contract enforcement. 0025-5033) is published quarterly by the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots. MM&P News Briefs 3 Headquarters: 700 Maritime Blvd., Unions tell President Biden how to strengthen US-flag fleet; in Suite B, Linthicum Heights, MD 21090-1953. Washington Post article, MM&P members describe the challenges that Phone: (410) 850-8700 today’s mariners face; police in Panama City attack peaceful marchers E-mail: [email protected] protesting dangerous working conditions; MM&P members march for Internet: www.bridgedeck.org jobs and labor rights; greetings from our members aboard American Periodicals Postage Paid at Mariner, MV St. John and USNS Watkins. Elkridge, MD and additional offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Master, Feature 10 Mate & Pilot, 700 Maritime Blvd., Suite B, Linthicum Crisis in the Suez, by Ernest J. Caponegro. Heights, MD 21090-1953 Don Marcus MM&P Health & Benefit Plans 16 Chairman, Editorial Board Your benefits are not changing, but we are transitioning to a new Lisa Rosenthal CIGNA Network. This issue contains a temporary medical ID card for Communications Director you to cut out and carry with you until your new card arrives. INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS Don Marcus, President News From MITAGS 22 Don Josberger, Secretary-Treasurer New pure car truck carrier course will soon be offered; MITAGS Educator Rebecca Evans is also a mixed martial arts pro! VICE PRESIDENTS Thomas Bell, Great Lakes & Gulf MM&P Pensioners 23 Jeremy Hope, Offshore Gulf & Government Contracts Congratulations Scholarship Winners! 24 Thomas Larkin, Offshore Atlantic George A. Quick, Pilots MM&P Directory 25 Michael Riordan, Atlantic Maritime Randall H. Rockwood, Federal Employees Cross’d the Final Bar 28 Timothy Saffle, Pacific Maritime Region Thank You Contributors to the MM&P PCF! 30 Lars Turner, Offshore Pacific Vol. 57, No.2 Summer 2021 About the Cover Connect With Us! Official Voice of the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots USNS Watkins was forward-deployed Bridgedeck.org Unions Tell White House How To in the Far East when a crewmember Strengthen US-Flag Fleet [email protected] MM&P Members March for Jobs and Labor Rights captured this photo. MM&P LDOs Armed Police Attack Panama Canal Workers at the conn of the vessel were Captain Facebook.com/IOMMP Darin Huggins, Chief Mate James Mixon, Second Mate Conor Boyce, YouTube: MastersMatesPilots Third Mate Kevin Hughes and Third Mate Chris Paccione. Instagram: bridgedeck Twitter: @MMP_Union FROM THE PRESIDENT Back to the Future Union Sisters & Brothers, the regulatory scheme regarding “minimum safe manning.” Everyone Spring is here and with it hope for emergence from the familiar with the industry will admit COVID-19 world that has poisoned life at sea and ashore. that the current system has failed to Restrictions are being gradually lifted and, absence a resurgence adequately reduce fatigue at sea, with of the pandemic, perhaps life will resume its more customary all its attendant risks to health and course. safety: ignoring the “human element,” At sea this means some of the issues that have been yet blaming mariners for some 80% smouldering will be re-ignited. For Masters, Mates & Pilots of the accidents at sea, takes turning a addressing these issues will move back to the forefront. If blind eye to a whole new level. the COVID-19 pandemic did nothing else for the maritime This new effort, funded by the International Transport community, it exposed the physical and mental health Workers’ Federation’s (ITF) Seafarers’ Trust, will employ the vulnerabilities that seafarers must cope with. For the rest of the expert services of the International Maritime Organization’s world the pandemic displayed in bright lights the fraudulent (IMO) World Maritime University. The study will review nature of the Flag of Convenience (FOC) system and the the entire regulatory scheme and the effectiveness of its fragility of the global supply chain. implementation related to minimum safe manning under the Our Union, while spending the last many months protecting current IMO requirements. Most importantly it will provide the the health and safety of our members and upholding their data and recommendations needed to spur regulatory change— human and contract rights, has much unfinished business. particularly in enforcement. The study will take place over a However, I am happy to say that more attention can now be three-year period. given to the industry issues of safe crewing levels, workload, Most interestingly a focus will be on the barriers to enhanced fatigue and contract enforcement. safe manning requirements, including commercial competition These issues have been at the forefront of recent negotiations between flag state registries, shipowners and an issue that is well with our major employers and are the subject of a pending known to our membership: a “culture of adjustment.” That is arbitration on the West Coast. Vice President Tom Larkin has a normalized deviance from the permitted hours of work/rest been steadily beating the drum demanding safe crewing levels caused by employment insecurities including everything from and the enforcement of work/rest hour requirements on the East outright coercion to desire for career advancement to a natural Coast as have Lars Turner and Jeremy Hope on the Pacific and desire to “get the job done.” These and many other issues will be Gulf. Overcoming the competitive pressures of shipowners and explored. We should all be proud of the fact that Captain Quick attracting the consistent attention of regulatory authorities— has been a leading light in seeking reform in this essential issue absent the temporary interest generated by the odd marine of seafarers’ health and safety at the international level for well disaster—is the major challenge. The international regulatory over twenty years. scheme looks adequate on paper, but the missing ingredients are The work being done on minimum safe manning, along mandatory enforcement provisions. with two other ITF campaigns that have arisen out of the One of the world’s foremost experts on maritime regulation, COVID-19 pandemic, pinpoint the glaring deficiencies inherent our Pilot Membership Group Vice President George Quick, has in international shipping. The ITF, in conjunction with the been involved in this effort for decades. He was a chief architect International Trade Union Council and the Council of Global in the development and passage of the 2011 IMO Resolution on Unions, recently launched a “Human Rights Due Diligence” the Principles of Safe Manning. Although the form in which the effort to follow up on the increased international scrutiny resolution was ultimately enacted fell far from realizing Captain brought about by the pandemic on the issues of human rights Quick’s objective, it served as an essential first step. Noting the protection and supply chain responsibility. After the appalling “glacial” progress of international maritime regulatory reform, it is important to support a new effort, now underway, to reform continued on page 2 www.bridgedeck.org - The Master, Mate & Pilot 1 President’s Message continued affiliation will dovetail with our existing relationship with the Unión de Capitanes y Oficiales de Cubierta (UCOC), which represents tug captains and deck officers in the Panama Canal. neglect of the human rights of international mariners and the Our sisters and brothers in Mexico are engaged in a major fragility of the global supply chain have been on display for the last organizing drive with the international tug giant Boluda Maritime fifteen months, there is reason to believe that not everything will go Corporation. We welcome OCPNRM and wish them success “back to normal.” in their efforts, achieving the protections of a union contract Another ITF campaign, intimately related to the Human Rights being the priority. In the meantime, our sisters and brothers in campaign, is the “Manning Agents Project,” which is designed Panama are continuing their battle to protect their health and to provide information to seafarers about fake manning agents, safety while operating tugs in the expanded Panama Canal. Like fraudulent employment contracts, non-compliant manning agents many employers we are familiar with, the Panama Canal Authority and a host of other pitfalls faced by seafarers who have been (ACP) continues to refuse to open a dialogue on hours of work/ made desperate for work due to the pandemic and who have no rest. Recently, the ACP unilaterally increased the size of vessels recourse if they are defrauded. The IMO, the International Labour allowed in the new Canal by fifteen feet. Unclear to the tug Organization, the United Nations, and many other organizations captains—and to everyone else—is how it could possibly be called around the world are increasingly aware of the deficiencies of our “safe” to position a 1215-foot vessel in a 1400-foot lock chamber industry. Finding solutions given the global nature of the system is using one 90-foot tug on the bow and another on the stern! the challenge. The ITF is at the forefront of this fight. The math certainly doesn’t work out well: a five-foot margin of Organizationally, pandemic or not, this Spring has seen some error for the largest vessels. The example of the recent grounding important developments for MM&P.
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