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Raymond T. McKay (November 15, 1925 – August 9, 1993)
was an American
labor
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leader. He was president of
American Maritime Officers (AMO) from 1957 until his death in 1993.
After World War II, McKay sailed as a
second engineer
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on a Sinclair Oil tanker.
He was active in organizing the fleet of the Isthmian Steamship Company for the Brotherhood of Maritime Engineers, which would later be renamed to American Maritime Officers. The labor agreement with Isthmian was secured in August 1951,
and in 1953, McKay was chosen to direct the union's Department of Welfare and Special Services.
In this position, he helped the union gain jurisdiction over the east coast tugboat industry.
In 1954, McKay was elected as one of the union's vice presidents.
Three years later, Wilbur Dickey resigned the presidency and McKay took the position on January 17, 1957.
Later that year, on October 29, 1957, McKay and then-president of the
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association H.L. Daggett signed an accord leading BME to merge with several MEBA locals.
The newly formed entity was known as MEBA's ''Great Lakes District Local 101.''
In 1960, after an internal reorganization of MEBA, this entity was now known as "District 2 MEBA."
McKay served as the union's president until his death on August 9, 1993. He was succeeded as president by his son, Michael McKay. The younger McKay later resigned the office after he was convicted of "three counts of mail fraud and two recordkeeping offenses. He was found not guilty of embezzling from an employee benefit plan.".
McKay's other son, former AMO National Secretary-Treasurer Robert McKay was convicted of two counts of mail fraud, embezzlement, and two recordkeeping offenses.
Memorials
* The AMO's training facility in
Dania Beach, Florida
Dania Beach (Dania until 1998) is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is part of the Miami metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 31,723. Dania Beach is the location of one of the largest jai ala ...
is named ''The Raymond T. McKay Simulation, Training, Assessment and Research Center'', as was its former facility in Toledo, Ohio.
See also
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American Maritime Officers
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Michael Sacco
Michael Sacco (February 14, 1937 – December 28, 2023) was an American labor leader from Brooklyn, New York. He was appointed as the president of the Seafarers International Union of North America, AFL-CIO in June 1988 by the ''SIUNA Executive ...
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Harry Lundeberg
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Harrald Olaf Lundeberg (March 25, 1901 – January 28, 1957) was a Norwegian-American merchant seaman and labor leader who served as the first president of the Seafarers International Union from 1938 to 1957.
Biography
Lundeberg left ...
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Paul Hall (labor leader)
Paul Hall (August 21, 1914 – June 22, 1980) was an American labor leader from Inglenook in Jefferson County, Alabama. He was a founding member and president of the Seafarers International Union (SIU) from 1957 to 1980. He was the senior vice ...
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Seafarers International Union
The Seafarers International Union or SIU is an organization of 12 autonomous trade union, labor unions of sailor, mariners, fishermen and boatmen working aboard vessels flagged in the United States or Canada. Michael Sacco was its president fro ...
References
External links
Raymond T. McKay Star Center, Dania
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American trade union leaders
1993 deaths
1925 births