Sailors' Union of the Pacific

__NOTOC__Infobox Union
name= SUP
country= United States
affiliation= AFL-CIO
members= 736 (2005)
full_name= Sailors' Union of the Pacific
native_name=


founded= March 6, 1885
current=
head=
dissolved_date=
dissolved_state=
merged_into=
office=
people= Gunnar Lundeberg, president
website= [http://www.sailors.org/ sailors.org]
footnotes= The Sailors' Union of the Pacific (SUP) founded on March 6, 1885 in San Francisco, California [cite web
title = Chapter I: The Lookout of the Labor Movement
url = http://www.sailors.org/pdf/history1-2.pdf
work = SUP History
accessdate=March 16| accessyear=2007] 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 1887. In 1889 he returned to sea but was reelected to the position of union secretary in 1891. It was during this termcite web
title = Andrew Furuseth
url = http://www.lawzone.com/half-nor/furuseth.htm
work = Norwegian American Hall of Fame
accessdate=March 16| accessyear=2007] on July 29, 1891 that Furuseth merged the Coast Seamen's Union with the Steamship Sailor's Union with the new organization named the Sailors' Union of the Pacific.cite web | title = Andrew Furuseth | url = http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/Cambridge/entries/030/Andrew-Furuseth.html | work = jrank.org | accessdate=March 18 | accessyear=2007]

With the exception of a two-year period when he shipped out as a fisherman, he was secretary of the SUP until 1935. In 1908, Furuseth also became president of the International Seamen's Union and served in that office until 1938. During this period, he successfully pushed for legislative reforms that eventually became the Seamen's Act of 1915.

SUP is an affiliate union of Seafarers International Union of North America. Headquarters are in San Francisco [cite web
title = SUP, About Us
url = http://www.sailors.org/aboutus.html
work = sailors.org
accessdate=March 16| accessyear=2007] and the union has branch offices in Wilmington, California, Seattle, Washington, and Honolulu, Hawaii. SUP also has an office in Norfolk, Virginia.

Union Executives

* George Thompson (1885-1887]
* Andrew Furuseth (January 1887-1889)cite web
title = Andrew Furuseth
url = http://www.lawzone.com/half-nor/furuseth.htm
work = Norwegian American Hall of Fame
accessdate=March 16| accessyear=2007]
* Andrew Furuseth (January 1891-1935)cite web
title = Andrew Furuseth Special Edition
url = http://www.sailors.org/pdf/newsletter/andrewfurusethspecialedition.pdf
work = West Coast Sailors, March 12 2004
accessdate=March 21| accessyear=2007]
* Harry Lundeberg (1939-1957) (Secretary/Treasurer)
* Morris Weisberger (1957 -1979)cite web
title = Chapter IX: The Fight Goes On
url=http://www.sailors.org/pdf/history1.pdf
work = sailors.org
accessdate=March 18| accessyear=2007] (President/Secretary- Treasurer)
* Paul Dempster (1979 - 1990) (President/Secretary- Treasurer)
* Gunnar Lundeberg (1990-current) [cite web
title = News, March 3, 2004
url = http://www.schwarzenegger.com/news.asp?id=1505
work = schwarzenegger.com
accessdate=March 16| accessyear=2007] (President/Secretary- Treasurer)

ee also

*Andrew Furuseth
*American Maritime Officers
*Seafarers International Union of North America
*National Maritime Union
*Paul Hall
*Michael Sacco
*United States Merchant Marine

Notes

References

*cite book
author=De La Pedraja Tomán, René
title=A Historical Dictionary of the U. S. Merchant Marine and Shipping Industry: Since the Introduction of Steam
publisher=Greenwood Press
location=Westport, Connecticut
year=1994
pages=522-526
isbn=0-313-27225-5
oclc=
doi= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rQJcXRK0gkQC&pg=PA374&lpg=PA374&dq=%22Frank+Drozak%22&source=web&ots=ZyiweEEOKg&sig=Ccbh4Vhdw5jUDR98Kz8UW-ycjIM&hl=en#PPA536,M1
*Archie Green, "Harry Lundeberg's Stetson & Other Nautical Treasures" (Crockett, CA: Carquinez Press, 2006). ISBN 0-9744124-3-0

External links

*http://www.sailors.org/ - official website
* [http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/affiliates.asp?ID=D000000145&Cycle=A&Type=P Election contributions at OpenSecrets]