The latest addition to the Sealift Inc. fleet-the high-speed craft HSV2 Swift-is expected to go on hire Oct. 1 with members of American Maritime Officers in all licensed positions under a charter recently awarded to the company by Military Sealift Command.
The following report was provided by John Seibel, president of TrueBallot Inc., the independent firm retained by the union to administer this election.
The voting American Maritime Officers membership majority spoke by secret ballot in the limited rerun election that ended June 24, and I listened closely to what was said.
Licensed seagoing unions should find additional ways to cooperate for their common benefit, American Maritime Officers National President Tom Bethel said June 23.
On June 18, Congress voted a second time to override the President's veto of legislation known as the farm bill, enacting the law without a cut in funding for P.L. 480 food-aid shipments in U.S.-flagged vessels under the Food for Peace program.
Members of American Maritime Officers were aboard June 29 when the U.S. merchant vessel Baltimore arrived in North Korea with 37,000 tons of U.S. food aid.
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American Maritime Officers July 1 closed its former headquarters office in Brooklyn, New York.
American Maritime Officers member Sterling Pearson, here in Ketchikan during a port inspection of the Seven Seas Mariner with the Norweigan Pearl in the background, is one of 25 AMO members currently sailing as ocean rangers aboard international cruise ships operating in Alaskan waters.
American Maritime Officers members Kristin Mangold, Jim McKillop and Anthony Rogone attended meetings of the AMO National Executive Board and AMO Plans Board of Trustees in Chicago in June.
