The Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Transportation join a number of prominent government officials and executives in spotlighting the vital role played by the U.S. Merchant Marine in supplying American troops around the world when the Maritime Trades Department, AFL-CIO (MTD) Executive Board meets March 4-5, 2004.Treasury Secretary John Snow, U.S. Representative James Clyburn (D-S.C.) and U.S. Representative Gene Green (D-Texas) are scheduled to speak March 5. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta is expected to address the board on March 4.
The sessions will take place in the Atlantic Ballroom of the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa at 3555 South Ocean Drive, Hollywood. MTD President Michael Sacco will call the meeting to order at 9:30 a.m. (EST) each day.
Besides the secretaries and elected officials, the heads of two military commands that oversee the movement of troops and supplies as well as the U.S. Maritime Administrator will speak.
The scheduled speakers for Thursday, March 4, include Secretary Mineta; Vice Admiral David Brewer, Commander, U.S. Military Sealift Command; Lieutenant General Gary Hughey, Deputy Commander, U.S. Transportation Command; Stephen Van Dyck, Chairman of Maritrans, Inc. (a domestic U.S.-flag tank/barge company); and Thomas Mackell, Managing Director of the Kamber Group.
Guests slated to speak before the MTD board on March 5 are Secretary Snow; U.S. Representatives Clyburn and Green; AFL-CIO President John Sweeney; United Food and Commercial Workers President Douglas Dority; U.S. Maritime Administrator Captain William Schubert; and Stephen Cotton, head of the Special Seafarers’ Department for the London-based International Transport Workers’ Federation.
The Maritime Trades Department, AFL-CIO is composed on 29 international unions and 24 port maritime councils in the United States and Canada representing 6.5 million working men and women.
The SIU is an MTD affiliate.
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