Now granted this is coming from Robert Allen but it sure sounds like he pointed out some interesting things about ECO’s new tug designs. [image] New oil escort tugs get poor review at citizens’ council A vessel design firm hired by a Prince William Sound environmental watchdog group is ve…

[image] Sand_Pebble: probably the Alaskans will love them if they go union. And new “officers are management and shall not go union or else!” letters sent out fleet wide in 3… 2… 1…

Yeah, sure, you betcha that Gary Chouest would ever enter into a collective bargaining contract just to make someone else happy… the man has one way of operating…the Gary Chouest way and that way will never, ever tolerate any union.

The last I heard ECO owned 70+ Brazilian flagged vessels, a few of them are monstrous anchor boats like the Bram Atlas & Bram Titian & the construction vessel Island Enforcer. If they are Brazilian flagged & working in Brazil, then all the employees are union including the captains. The Brazilian na…

Oops…needed to say American seafarers unions…

If ECO can negotiate with Brazilian unions, Mexican unions, European unions, Australian unions & African unions then ECO will negotiate with US unions if it has too. The management at ECO has to realize US union leaders are just as easy to bribe as foreign union leaders.

I still never see it because unlike in most of the other nations you listed, our government has no unionization mandate and with no law saying you must accept a union is the same as never accepting one for someone like don Vito Chouest

Do we really need to drag this thread out of the archives for the new folk? [image] Is it illegal to support unions? Professional Mariner Forum Trying to find out if it is indeed illegal to support union organizing, contribute financial support, etc.? Seems far fetched. C…

You tell them! I expected more from the armchair quarterbacks myself!

Yesterday someone posted a screenshot of AIS showing most if not all of the Crowley Equipment heading out. This surprised me as I was half expecting someone to ask them to hang around just in case. I figured they would jump on this as it would be T&M and the profit would be pretty large. I’m sure t…

Again we see the astronomical level of hubris at ECO…Bubba Thug Gary really and truly believes there is nothing that he and his operation can’t do better than anybody else anywhere on the planet! I used to think that Shane Guidry was the most arrogant asshole in the GoM but he is a boy scout compar…

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Do we really need to drag this thread out of the archives for the new folk?

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