Some attorneys won’t take your blacklisting claims seriously. We listen.

Some offshore firms scoff at the idea of a blacklist and will look at you as a conspiracy theorist rather than take your concerns seriously. For example, one prominent Gulf Coast firm writes on their site that  a blacklist "does not exist.” Moreover, they say that there are numerous laws that stop "offshore companies from trying to ‘blacklist’ workers.” (Gee, under that reasoning none of the Deepwater Horizon companies could have committed any violations because there are laws against that). This same law firm calls the black list nothing but a decade’s “old rumor” from the oil field. Wonder what the 3,800 mariners and longshoremen who lost their jobs in the West Coast Port Security Program would have thought about the “rumor” that they were blacklisted?

Technically, this firm is correct in that there is not really some secret scroll by the name of “Blacklist” in the desk of some central office containing the names of malcontented and bogus lawsuit filing seamen. However, as we’ve pointed out recently in numerous blogs on this topic, employers are crafty about finding ways to permanently put seafarers on the beach. And those “laws” the other firm talks about that “prevents” blacklisting? Well, to quote the old adage, “it’s not cheating if you’re not caught.”

Is every mariner’s claim of blacklisting valid? Of course not. And the fact of the matter is, unfortunately some workers do file fraudulent or multiple lawsuits and frankly these people need to be washed out of the industry.

One thing we can promise is to take your blackball concerns seriously. We will listen to your story and if we believe there’s merit then we will conduct a thorough investigation and go after the guilty party for damages, clear your name and put you back to work.

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V&B represents injured maritime workers and their families worldwide.  We protect workers who have been blackballed or retaliated against for reporting safety concerns, injuries on the job, or asserting their legal rights.

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