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“On this Labor Day in 2023, we have achieved a remarkable feat — transforming the lowest paid ferry jobs in the nation into the highest paid.” youtube.com/live/CLwvOU59p…

Heavy lifts. Tight tolerances. High pressure. M.E.B.A. members do the work most people never see — and do it right. #MEBA #MarineEngineering #UnionStrong

M.E.B.A. Gulf Coast VP Adam Smith in The Dallas Express on the Jones Act waiver: "If Jones Act waivers become normalized, the greatest risk is the damaging signal they send to the U.S. maritime industry." #JonesAct #MEBA dallasexpress.com/national/is-th…

“The air traffic control tower, the entire time, was saying, ‘We have a real safety problem here,’ and nobody was listening. It was like somebody was asleep at the switch or didn't want to act. It is a bureaucratic nightmare,” says NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy. cbsn.ws/413R1mt

@cpgrabow If we are going to quote the journal you should at least quote that you are supporting modern day slave labor.

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3x better than zero is still zero. Try again.

The problem with this @DominicJPino is you are focusing the blame on the wrong thing. It is not the Jones Act that caused the decline in US shipbuilding since World War Two. Instead, it is the Jones Act that has kept that little vestige that is left. If you want to be accurate, here are the top 10 reasons that US shipping and shipbuilding have declined: 1️⃣Ships Sales Act of 1946 provides Allied merchant fleets with 1113 surplus ships from the US when we could have used the opportunity to jam our shipyards with orders. 2⃣The US assists Liberia in the creation of a ship registry akin to Panama. The latter was used to avoid Neutrality Laws and ship aid - particularly 100 octane gas - to the UK. Liberia, as one of the few independent states in Africa needed economic support. 3️⃣Marshall Plan of 1949 provides loans to counties to rebuild critical infrastructure, including shipyards. Many of which adopt the pre-fabrication method of the US 4⃣US set up the Military Sea Transportation Service in 1949 (now Military Sealift Command) to handle sealift for the Dept of Defense, thereby reducing its level of dependency on the US merchant marine. 5⃣New cargo handling technologies are introduced, but a few - LASH, SeaBee, Roll-on/Roll-off - are not commercially viable and lead to the demise of some key shipping companies. 6️⃣ Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 leads to the creation of the Interstate Highway System. This reduces the need for coastal (cabotage) shipping as cargo shifts to trucks. 7⃣The introduction of DC8 and 707 in 1958 shifted the movement of people from rail and ship to plane. This opened up cargo capacity on the nation's rail system. 8⃣Colonial Pipeline 1962 saw a massive reduction in the number of product tankers needed from the Gulf of Mexico to the US East Coast 9⃣Vietnam War demonstrated the utility of the containership (see The Box) but the failure to invest a new program to sponsor ship construction until the MMA 1970, allowed Europe and Japan - using some of those protectionist methods you oppose - to surpass the US. 🔟The 1980s saw the end of construction differentials under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. This witnessed the end of ship construction for ships in the international trade as the US Navy wanted to ship construction of their 600-ship Navy exclusively into private yards, but the end of the Cold War saw US yards lose not just commercial, but also military business. You will note that the Jones Act does not make the list, because it actually preserves the vestiges of US shipbuilding. I would also note that when the US decided in the 1980s to divest itself of commercial shipbuilding, at the time Europe, Japan and Korea built the overwhelming majority of the world's ships. In 2024, China builds 51% with expectations that 2025, that number rose to 63%.

Congratulations to PASS members Donald Davis, Brian Dickey & Al Minton for their work running new data cables, fiber optics & installing servers, software for new Georgia Enterprise Center in the interest of air traffic control safety & efficency! #ATCAConnect #PublicService

American mariners operating in the Persian Gulf & throughout the Middle East deserve the strongest possible protection as they carry out missions vital to our nation’s economic & strategic interests. Read the joint statement from U.S. maritime unions:

To all the workers who keep our city safe and moving during extreme weather—we thank you. And to everyone whose job doesn’t allow for a snow day, please stay safe out there.

Thousands at the @TWULocal100 Mass Membership meeting. Intl. Sec-Treas. Lafragola pledged the International’s full support in the impending contract fight vs ⁦@MTA⁩ “We’re going to be there step by step, shoulder to shoulder with you, making sure you get what you deserve.”

@DelgadoforNY Common sense isn’t so common these days….thank you @DelgadoforNY for supporting safety over profit. The MTA is a mess and continues to look to cut safety to make up for its inability to stop uncontrolled waste everywhere else.

New Yorkers deserve safety as the standard on every ride. Two-person crews on our subways aren’t just common sense — they’re essential.

Love to see Staten islands electeds, no matter office or party, working together to better the lives of the people they represent. Proud of the work @RepNicole @KamillahMHanks @NYSenator_JSS are doing to build a stronger community together. Great work ladies!!

@dmtrubman Saw your linkdin says you’re open to work. Are you just angry that you are not qualified for a “make work” job. Eliminating middle class workers who operate and maintain most important transit system in the world is a take that will bite you later on.

So glad to see Kathy Hochul is prioritizing building a high quality transit system in NYC over some make-work jobs by vetoing this over-staffing bill.

Very brave indeed for @GovKathyHochul to side with the neo-liberal out-of-town gobshites by vetoing a bill that blue collar New Yorkers (aka Voters) overwhelmingly support . It’s a futile veto though because the @transportworker Conductors are and always will be performing service delivery in the @TWULocal100’s Subway for our city’s working people. That’s a harsh truth for the bean counting anti-worker gentrifiers who think they can move from the backwaters of America to neighborhoods like Harlem and somehow achieve legitimacy by declaring it in their Twitter bios. If you @mattyglesias believe that the system is safer and better without Conductors on the train then you’re as big a fool as the college boy academics who believe they can move to Bushwick or Fort Green and then convince the world they’re from Brooklyn. @CentralLaborNYC @NYSAFLCIO

Thank you @RepNicole for advocating for federal workers. The MEBA represents federal workers at both Military Sealift Command and Army corp of engineers. Our members are on the front line we appreciate you fighting for them and others that keep our nation safe.

Anyone wondering why @TheDemocrats lose in Ohio, need look no further than anti-worker Democrat Mark Derrig, Chair of the Akron Metro RTA AND Chair of @summitdems . 300 @transportworker members in TWU Local 1 at Akron Metro have gone two years without a wage increase, while Derrig, a leading Democrat , doles out massive executive pay increases . @SherrodBrown, the most pro-trade union Senator of my lifetime, had the rug pulled out from under him by local Democrats like this guy who undermines blue collar Ohian Transit Workers every chance he gets. If Dems are serious about regaining ground in Ohio they need to clean house and show working ppl they won't tolerate Derrig and his ilk anymore. @ohioaflcio

@dmtrubman @TwuSamuelsen is the most important name on that list and a true believer in nyc transit. NYC is the greatest testament to public transit in the world and to not have his name advising on its future would have killed any chance of finding real solutions to making it better.

Lots of great names on Mamdani's transportation transition committee, but can't say I love seeing John Samuelsen from TWU here. After spending the last few years trying to kill congestion pricing his top policy priority now seems to be legislatively mandating fake jobs.

The quotes from subway riders in this are article are overwhelmingly reflective of the views of the working people of NYC who constitute the main body of transit users. Trains are very obviously safer with @transportworker Conductors onboard: Some riders who spoke with the media agree with Samuelsen that conductors are not only needed on trains, but are a welcoming presence, especially as the city grapples with crime on the rails.  “Especially when it’s late, when it’s dark, when I’m alone. I like knowing that person is there,” one subway rider said in an Eyewitness News article Simon, another commuter,  told amNewYork that it is “common sense” to have conductors on trains.  “I think it’s best to have two people on the train, due to all the issues that occur on the train, like accidents, assaults,” he said. “It’s common sense to have two people manning a train.”

A revival of the U.S. merchant marine would bolster our economy, improve national security, and create jobs. @MEBAUNION Secretary-Treasurer @rolirex emphasizes that investment in the industry must be accompanied by investment in workers & wages. nytimes.com/2025/11/11/bus…