Civilian Mariners File Grievance Over Military Sealift Command

Civilian mariners are frustrated with stay-on-ship measures put in place to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks and their unions have filed a formal grievance with Military Sealift Command, even as MSC has been touting the extreme care it’s taken to avoid getting its employees sick or spreading the illness to warships they resupply at sea. On March 21, MSC Commander Rear Adm. Michael Wettlaufer issued a “gangway up order,” stopping the movement of civilian mariners (CIVMARs) on and off the ship for those MSC ships pierside in the United States. When that order came out, many were caught off guard, Sal Mercogliano

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