The Seafarers Entertainment and Allied Trades Union (SEATU) represents workers in the service, hospitality and gaming industries. SEATU is affiliated with the Seafarers International Union.
Missouri voters on Aug. 7 provided the state’s working families – and the labor movement nationwide – with a tremendous victory by rejecting the state’s so-called right-to-work law.
U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Washington) recently spoke on the House floor in support of the Jones Act, a maritime law that is vital to protecting U.S. national, economic and homeland security.
A longtime backer of the American maritime industry, Larsen delivered his brief remarks April 18.
Many Seafarers probably know that the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968 while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee.