The Com­pa­ny has recent­ly devel­oped an Employ­ee Recog­ni­tion Pro­gram (ERP) is to pub­licly rec­og­nize employ­ees who have demon­strat­ed any of the following:

• out­stand­ing job performance
• con­tributed to the Company’s betterment
• per­formed exem­plary com­mu­ni­ty service 
• increased com­pa­ny-wide employ­ee moti­va­tion, job sat­is­fac­tion, and encouragement
• increas­ing pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and pro­mot­ing con­tin­u­ous improvement. 

Annu­al­ly, employ­ees are rec­og­nized in each of three areas:

• Tow­ing Personnel
• Ship­yard Personnel
• Operations/Administration/Office Per­son­nel

Addi­tion­al­ly, a Chairman’s Award is award­ed to one stand­out employ­ee when spe­cial recog­ni­tion as the “Employ­ee of the Year” is deemed appropriate.

Towards the end of every year, employ­ees sub­mit nom­i­na­tions for fel­low co-work­ers to be con­sid­ered for an award. 

This year’s recip­i­ents are as follows:

• Tow­ing Per­son­nel – Dan Gal­lagher, Soo Line­han­dling Lead Linehandler
• Ship­yard Per­son­nel – Juan Cano, Electrician
• Operations/Administrative/Office Per­son­nal – Wan­da Red­dy, Human Resources Manager
• Chairman’s Award – John Immer­fall, Tug­man, Chicago

Con­grat­u­la­tions to all awardees! We thank you for your hard work and ded­i­ca­tion to the Company!

The fol­low­ing video shows the Offi­cial Seal of The Great Lakes Tow­ing Com­pa­ny, dat­ing back to the Com­pa­ny’s incor­po­ra­tion in 1899, being used to val­i­date the 2020 Employ­ee Recog­ni­tion Pro­gram certificates.