Your Shipmates Are Counting on You: Building a Respectful Maritime Workplace
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Resource Guide
The MM&P Women’s Caucus has published a resource guide to further its mission of effecting change to assure equal rights, respect and safety for all mariners and workers in the maritime industry.
The new guide, “Your Shipmates Are Counting on You: Building a Respectful Maritime Workplace,” includes links to organizations that offer help and support to those who have experienced bullying, harassment or discrimination, as well as advice on what actions to take in the event that you experience bullying or harassment, or witness others being bullied or harassed.
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Recent News and Announcements
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Celebrating a 1st of its kind in the nation! SB 5995 – 2025-26 was signed into law preventing public monies from being used for automation of maritime port jobs. MM&P leadership worked with ILWU, Teamsters and other maritime unions to bring this bill across the finish line. MM&P Secretary-Treasurer J. Lars Turner (left) and MM&P […]
4-Minute Interview on NPR
War with Iran strands about 20,000 seafarers in the Strait of Hormuz NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Jacqueline Smith of the International Transport Workers’ Federation about the roughly 20,000 seafarers stuck in the Strait of Hormuz in the midst of the Iran war. To listen to the 4-minute interview, please click here.
Joint Letter to President Trump March 12, 2026
Please click here to view a pdf version of the joint letter sent to President Trump on March 12, 2026.
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The Directory on our Contact page has a list of our leadership, headquarters departments, and the representatives at all port offices. Find it here: MM&P Directory
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I am new to the industry – do you have entry-level training programs?
Check out the tab on our site Prospective Applicants. Also, MITAGS has provided the following link for their Maritime Apprenticeship Program is designed for entry-level mariners who have limited-to-no maritime experience. View more information about the program here: https://maritimeapprenticeship.org.