Maritime labor continues to express strong reservations about aspects of the new Transportation Workers Identification Credential (TWIC) program. While acknowledging that everyone has a vital interest in enhancing America’s maritime security, the unions believe that a poorly designed and implemented program will place onerous burdens on the industry without providing any real benefits. Maritime unions are most concerned about redundancies in the vetting process and an unnecessary duplication of documents. Some requirements about which maritime labor has expressed concerns already have proven to be unworkable in the time frame given. For example, the federal government has already been forced to push back the starting date on a provision requiring card readers be placed on most vessels.