Hearing on H.R. 3283, a Bill to Extend the Coverage of Certain Federal Laws to Foreign Flagships: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, October 25, 1989 |
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AFL-CIO agent American Antigua and Barbuda apply Article bargaining behalf BENTLEY Bermuda captain cargo Cayman Islands chaplain Chapter CLAY Code collective agreement Committee Congress contract of employment Convention costs cruise ships domestic unions employer enforce Federation flag of convenience foreign crew members foreign flag ships foreign flag vessels foreign national foreign registry foreign seamen foreign ships foreign vessel French German GRANDY Greek Honduras International Labour Organization international law International Transport Workers Japanese jurisdiction Labor Relations Act legislation Liberian Loree Merchant Shipping minimum National Labor Relations negotiate NLRA Norwegian officers operations organize overtime Panama Panamanian passenger ships Petitioners problems protection regulations repatriation Respondents safety sailing seafarers Seamen's Act ship owners shipowner ships registered SIMPKINS SINOGEORGE strike SUBCOMMITTEE tankers trade dispute trade union U.S. labor laws U.S. laws U.S. ports U.S. waters United Vanuatu wages
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Page 322 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 147 - commerce' means trade, traffic, commerce, transportation, or communication among the several States, or between the District of Columbia or any Territory of the United States and any State or other Territory, or between any foreign country and any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or within the District of Columbia or any Territory, or between points in the same State but through any other State or any Territory or the District of Columbia or any foreign country. "(7) The term 'affecting...
Page 74 - Convention, after it has come into force, it may prepare a report addressed to the government of the country in which the ship is registered, with a copy to the DirectorGeneral of the International Labour Office, and may take measures necessary to rectify any conditions on board which are clearly hazardous to safety or health.
Page 165 - ... (C) a prohibition on the use of any form of forced or compulsory labor; (D) a minimum age for the employment of children; and (E) acceptable conditions of work with respect to minimum wages, hours of work, and occupational safety and health.
Page 322 - An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable on the ground only that it induces some other person to break a contract of employment or that it is an interference with the trade, business, or employment of some other person, or with the right of some other person to dispose of his capital or his labour as he wills.
Page 171 - United States, when used in a geographic sense means the States of the United States, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the District of Columbia, the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States, except that for purposes of §67.19(d)(3) trust territories are not considered to be part of the United States.
Page 79 - It has also been observed that an act of congress ought never to be construed to violate the law of nations if any other possible construction remains...
Page 266 - It is part of the law of civilized nations that when a merchant vessel of one country enters the ports of another for the purposes of trade, it subjects itself to the law of the place to which it goes, unless by treaty or otherwise the two countries have come to some different understanding or agreement...
Page 83 - And so by comity it came to be generally understood among civilized nations that all matters of discipline and all things done on board which affected only the vessel or those belonging to her, and did not involve the peace or dignity of the country, or the tranquillity of the port, should be left by the local government to be dealt with by the authorities of the nation to which the vessel belonged as the laws of that nation or the interests of its commerce should require.
Page 409 - International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS PROT 88); the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto...