civengrpe, I was an AMO member after college and stayed with them until I my company lost its MARAD contracts to IUM and put me on a tanker close to it’s OPA 90 date. Job were slim that year so I took a job offshore in the Gulf of Mexico… that dried up as well and they sent my ship to India. I tramped around SE Asia for 4 years until I got married then came back and joined MMP but after months sitting in the union hall I went back offshore. I would have rejoined AMO but at that time they had dropped dental coverage. The grapevine said MEBA had no jobs.