Reprinted from past issues of the Seafarers LOG.1951
After many months of building preparations, the SIU moved into its new headquarters over the weekend of November 17. The building at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, was acquired over a year ago and was made necessary by the fact that SIU outgrew the old headquarters building at 51 Beaver Street in downtown New York. The move was made by the headquarters staff, and the office staff, with many rank-and-file members assisting…. It is only a little more than seven years since the move from the small and dingy office at 2 Stone Street near South Ferry in downtown New York which used to house the headquarters of the union.
1962
The latest in a series of important advances to assure all Seafarers the best possible food and food service aboard ship is now under way at SIU headquarters with the launching of a new refresher school for SIU chief stewards as part of the steward department recertification program. Five veteran stewards are enrolled in the first class.
The program, developed over the past couple years, is the result of a recommendation by a committee of rank-and-file members of the steward department. It features both classroom and practical work to upgrade the steward and teach him the skills necessary for a chief steward’s rating.
1989
Four officials of the independent trade union Solidarity (Solidarnosc in Polish) looked to the SIU and the Lundeberg School for ideas that can be adapted in Poland. The Polish trade unionists were brought to the United States last month as guests of the AFL-CIO, the federation of national and international unions in the United States.
In a meeting with SIU Executive Vice President Joseph Sacco, the four union activists discussed how a trade union can protect its members’ job security. Of particular interest to the Solidarity officials was the concept of the hiring hall.
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