The SIU recently welcomed aboard new members when boatmen at Puerto Rico Towing chose to join the Seafarers.Puerto Rico Towing operates five tugs that perform docking and undocking in San Juan Harbor as well as in other ports in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and elsewhere in the Caribbean. The company is a subsidiary of Great Lakes Towing.
Negotiations are well under way for a first contract covering unlicensed boatmen at Puerto Rico Towing, who sail aboard the Honcho, Punta Borinquen, Punta Lima, El Lobo Grande II and the Punta Tuna.
Victor Nuñez, SIU port agent in San Juan, said that the union had unanimous support among the unlicensed mariners, and the company recognized that support.
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