Another Miracle Brought to You By America's Unions (This Time With Pirates!)
Now that the American crew members of the Maersk Alabama have retaken the ship from four Somali pirates (USA! USA! USA!), it's important to note that like all the people involved with
the safe landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in January, the crew members of the Maersk Alabama are union members. (Thanks to Marcy Wheeler for the blog title and the meme.) The unions in question are the Seafarers International Union, which represents 12 of the 20-person crew, the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (MEBA), and the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots (MM&P). As former safety chairman of the Airline Pilots Association, Chesley Sullenberger, the hero pilot of Flight 1549, fought to make sure his colleagues got the training they needed to do what he did in January. And as I just heard on Fox News (and confirmed with the SIU), crew members of the Maersk Alabama received anti-piracy training from (where else?) their union. You can see an SIU member at small arms training at the union's Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education in the photo to the right (more photos here). In addition to small arms training, the Hall Center offers anti-terror, basic safety, first aid, and other security-related courses.
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OMG!!
Dumbest remark ever from
RE: No more Columbines!
Oh, right
Not the same.
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who's really the pirates?
Ummm... wow.
How presumptuous of you.
Sure, blame the
LOL @ Union slobs
1. I fail to see how your
alright UAW.
You forgot to mention the
unions
It's not about the guns
Maersk is a union crew.
Unions are all that is wrong
The Union!
Pirates
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Are you suggesting these people, perceiving threats to their lives, actually successfully defended themselves and neutralized the danger with GUNS!!! ARMED defense against aggressors?!?! And our beloved UNIONS are forwarding this Right Wing Wacko agenda?!?!tiffany jewelry
If this story gets out, the Whole NATION will be demanding the Right to Keep and Bear Arms for their Own Defense!
Unions are all that is wrong
Unions are all that is wrong with the world. the feel that they have earned things they have not, and demand them from business owners who are the only ones who actually make the world a better place. shame on you.
Union ! where?
Our U.S. seafaring unions have been around for a very long time. We survived the local pirates of the Regan and Bush administrations and lately Somali pirates. The pirates and the brutal work conditions were the easier victories. The mainstream news agencies seem all to willingly to ignore the idea that we are union men and women trained by our own union funds.
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