Sailor's Union of the Pacific
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| Sailor's Union of the Pacific | |
| Founded | March 6, 1885 |
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| Members | 736 (2005) |
| Country | United States |
| Affiliation | AFL-CIO |
| Key people | Gunnar Lundeberg, president |
| Website | sailors.org |
The Sailor's Union of the Pacific (SUP) founded on March 6, 1885 in San Francisco, California [1] is an American labor union of mariners, fishermen and boatmen working aboard U.S. flag vessels.
At its fourth meeting in 1885, the fledgling organization adopted the name Coast Sailor's Union and elected George Thompson its first president. Andrew Furuseth, who had joined the union on June 3, 1885 was elected to its highest office in January of 1887. In 1889 he returned to sea but was reelected to the position of union secretary in 1891. It was during this term[2] on July 29, 1891 that Furuseth merged the Coast Seamen's Union with the Steamship Sailor's Union with the new organization named the Sailor's Union of the Pacific.[3]
With the exception of a two-month period when he shipped out as a fisherman, he was secretary of the SUP until 1935.[4] In 1908, Furuseth also became president of the International Seamen's Union and served in that office until 1938.[2] During this period, he successfully pushed for legislative reforms that eventually became the Seamen's Act of 1915.[2]
SUP is an affiliate union of Seafarers International Union of North America. Headquarters are in San Francisco [5]. and the union has branch offices are in Wilmington, California, Seattle, Washington, and Honolulu, Hawaii. SUP also has an office in Norfolk, Virginia.
[edit] Union Executives
- George Thompson (1885-1887]
- Andrew Furuseth (Janurary 1887-1889)[2]
- Andrew Furuseth (Janurary 1891-1935)[4]
- Harry Lundeberg (1939-1957) (Secretary/Treasurer)
- Morris Weisberger (1957 -1979)[6] (President/Secretary- Treasurer)
- Paul Dempster (1979 - 1990)[6] (President/Secretary- Treasurer)
- Gunnar Lundeberg (1990-current)[7] (President/Secretary- Treasurer)
[edit] See also
- Andrew Furuseth
- American Maritime Officers
- Seafarers International Union of North America
- National Maritime Union
- Paul Hall
- Michael Sacco
- United States Merchant Marine
[edit] References
- ^ Chapter I: The Lookout of the Labor Movement. SUP History. Retrieved on March 16, 2007.
- ^ a b c d Andrew Furuseth. Norwegian American Hall of Fame. Retrieved on March 16, 2007.
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- ^ a b Andrew Furuseth Special Edition. West Coast Sailors, March 12 2004. Retrieved on March 21, 2007.
- ^ SUP, About Us. sailors.org. Retrieved on March 16, 2007.
- ^ a b Chapter IX: The Fight Goes On. sailors.org. Retrieved on March 18, 2007.
- ^ News, March 3, 2004. schwarzenegger.com. Retrieved on March 16, 2007.
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