Unions


International Salvage Union (ISU) International Salvage Union (ISU) member companies provide essential services for the world's maritime and insurance communities. Members are engaged in marine casualty response, pollution defence, wreck removal, cargo recovery, towage and related activities.

Central Union of Marine Underwriters Norway (CEFOR) The Central Union of Marine Underwriters Norway (CEFOR) Oslo, Norway, Founded in 1911 by Norwegian and foreign insurance companies to promote and safeguard the professional and economic interests of its members within hull, energy and cargo insurance.

European Broadcasting Union (EBU) - Geneva, Switzerland
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is the largest professional association of national broadcasters in the world. Headquartered in Geneva, and working on behalf of its members in the European area, the EBU negotiates broadcasting rights for major sports events, operates the Eurovision and Euroradio networks, organizes programme exchanges, stimulates and coordinates co- productions, and provides a full range of other operational, commercial, technical, legal and strategic services. At its office in Brussels, the EBU represents the interests of public service broadcasters before the European institutions.

Sailors' Union of the Pacific
The origins of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific go back to March 6, 1885, when the Coast Seamen's Union was organized on the San Francisco waterfront by a group of three hundred sailors dissatisfied by the wages and conditions aboard ship that existed at that time.
In 1886, the Steamship Sailors' Union was organized and in 1891 merged with the Coast Seamen's Union to form the Sailors' Union of the Pacific.
The reasons for that merger are clearly stated in the preamble to the SUP Constitution: "...having been organized separately... and having thoroughly learned the value of organization, and further, that two organizations of the same craft are not for the best interests of men working at the said craft, we have determined to form one Union..." .
The Sailors' Union of the Pacific has been in continuous operation, through good times and bad, for over 113 years-an achievement unequaled by any maritime union in the world.

U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps
The Naval Sea Cadet Corps (NSCC) is for American youth ages 13-17 who have a desire to learn about the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine. Sea Cadets are authorized by the Secretary of the Navy to wear Navy uniforms appropriately marked with the Sea Cadet Corps insignia. The objectives of the Sea Cadet program are to introduce youth to naval life, to develop in them a sense of pride, patriotism, courage, and self-reliance.

Union of Industrial and Employrs’ Confederation of Europe (UNICE) – Brussels, Belgium

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Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, today ASME International is a nonprofit educational and technical organization serving a worldwide membership.







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