Sam Kagel

PETER,
SO SWORRY TO LEARN OF YOUR DAD'S DEATH
I REMEMBER SO WELL HOW YOU SPOKE OF HIM. HE OBVIOUSLY WAS A GIANT OF A MAN.
LIZ MCCALL

Sam, along with his long time friend and Teamster economist, Harry Polland, played significant roles in helping me with my career. Besides all of the great problem solving methods Sam developed, and the many industries and thousands of jobs he helped to ensure by teaching methods of developing labor peace, or at least co-existance, he also was never too busy to help someone learn. We will never see the likes of him again. My condolances to Sam's family.

Although a relative newcomer to the maritime industry it is obvious to me the respected place in American labor history that Sam Kagel occupies.

His legacy is a collective bargaining agreement and grievance machinery that has survived the test of time and exists today much as it came about some 70 years ago.

Here's hoping that the mutual respect for the grievance machinery that Sam engendered will be a long lasting legacy from both sides of the table.

His presence...

Sam played a large part in my professional career with the Pacific Maritime Association and I had to appear before him numerous times in arbitration hearings. He was a great human being and his passing is a huge loss to us all. John D. MacEvoy
So. Cal. Area Mgr. (Ret.)
Pacific Maritime Association