Thomas J. Bethel is an American
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leader. He was elected national president of American Maritime Officers in 2008. He was reelected as AMO National President in 2010. He had been appointed as the national president of the
American Maritime Officers union (AMO) on January 8, 2007
by the union's National Executive Committee.
Bethel formerly served as AMO's national executive vice-president,
which is the third highest position in the union.
Bethel sailed with AMO as a Chief Engineer for several years before being named a union representative in 1986.
He later served as an executive board member
and as the national assistant vice president at large.
See also
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Michael McKay
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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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American Maritime Officers
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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
American Maritime Officers website
American trade union leaders
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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