It sounds like MMP is lowballing itself, but I suspect the real reason to keep the jobs from going to AMO.
AMO and MMP appear to be locked into a death spiral of underbidding each other for contracts, with both unions ending up losing jobs and members, and headed for extinction.
The worst thing, from my perspective, is that the lowballing unions are having a ripple effect that is suppressing non union wages.
I’d like to see all the officer’s unions merge, and return to their traditional role of leading wages higher for all mariners.