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Seafarers International Union is the largest union in North America representing merchant mariners. [1] Seafarers International Union staffs union halls in 20 seaports, including facilities in Guam and Puerto Rico, according to the SIU website. This watch bob references the Seafarers Log, SIU's official organ.
Seafarers Music is a Will Oldham EP released in 2004. It is the soundtrack to the film Seafarers (2004) by British director Jason Massot, a documentary about four seamen in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Each of the album's tracks is named after one of the four sailors. The EP also features playing from Paul Oldham and David Bird.
The National Maritime Union (NMU) was an American labor union founded in May 1937. It affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in July 1937. After a failed merger with a different maritime group in 1988, the union merged with the Seafarers International Union of North America in 2001.
Seafarers International Union of North America people (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Seafarers International Union of North America" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Debra Cowan, sea music performer from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts; Roger McGuinn, from Chicago; William Pint and Felicia Dale, from Seattle; Bob Roberts, British Merchant Seaman and folk singer (1907–1982) Stan Rogers, Canadian performer; wrote "Barrett's Privateers" (1949–1983) Cyril Tawney, British performer (1930–2005)
The British Seafarers' Union (BSU) was a trade union which organised sailors and firemen in the British ports of Southampton and Glasgow between 1911/1912 and 1922. Although of considerable local importance, the organisation remained much smaller and less influential at a national level than the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union, (NSFU).
Paul Hall (August 21, 1914 – June 22, 1980) was an American labor leader from Inglenook in Jefferson County, Alabama.He was a founding member and president of the Seafarers International Union (SIU) from 1957 to 1980. [1]
Joseph Curran (March 1, 1906 – August 14, 1981) was a merchant seaman and an American labor leader. He was founding president of the National Maritime Union (or NMU, now part of the Seafarers International Union of North America) from 1937 to 1973, and a vice president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).