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Global Transport Unions Pledge Support to Locked-out New York Art Handlers LONDON, Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 100 Teamster members and representatives from several global labor unions, including Unite the Union, the Trades Union Congress, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, the Public and Commercial Services Union and the International Transport Workers' Federation, protested outside Sotheby's Contemporary Art Day Auction this evening.
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Flags of Convenience and Open Registries history and practice. Discrimination in the Cruise Industry. The Inadequacy of the Spector DecisiOn and Other Caselaw. Limitations on Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Law. The Eleventh Circuit's. Conclusion.
... the enforcement ofboth domestic and international laws against the ships that sail its flags. . A cr... availability of additional protections to workers aboard ships ultimately owned and controlledby U.S... ("UNCTAD"), entitled Review of Maritime Transport, declared that over half of the gross ship tonnage... the International Transport Workers' Federation concluded that FOC ships accounted for 53% of the ...
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GENEVA, Nov. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The pillaging of threatened fish stocks, human rights abuse and global pirate fishing operations worth more than a billion dollars are documented in a report sponsored by the Australian Government, the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) and World Wildlife Fund. The report, The Changing Nature of High Seas Fishing: How Flags of Convenience provide cover for illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing reveals the link between illegal fishing operations in the world's oceans and countries that offer cheap registration services, or flags of convenience (FOC), to fishing vessels. The FOC system provides a perfect cover for IUU fishing, which is estimated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to account for 30 percent of total catch...
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LONG BEACH - Negotiations between 18 striking Filipino seafarers and a ship owner reached a conclusion Monday as pressure mounted to resolve the five-day dispute. Late Monday, the crew decided to settle for $227,000 in back pay and tickets to their homeland, said Jeff Engels, a West Coast coordinator of the International Transport Workers Federation who represented the sailors.
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Workers Demand Schubert Theatres, Sotheby's 'Stop the Discrimination' LONDON, Oct. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Jason Ide, President of Teamsters Local 814, and Dorian Malloy Jr. a Local 814 member and locked-out Sotheby's art handler, addressed a British Parliamentary hearing on Wednesday. The two discussed their concerns with Sotheby's Auction House, which has locked out 43 of its professional art handlers for nearly three months.
...Members representing transport workers, including Unite the Union, the Trades Uni... and Commercial Services Union, the International Transport Workers' Federation and others protested...
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Dock Workers Protest BMW's Destruction of Good Jobs ONTARIO, Calif., Aug. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dock workers at 10 ports in nine countries have organized informational pickets over the past several days to show their solidarity with the BMW workers in Ontario, Calif., who will be laid off later this month.
... of unions that belong to the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) - held banners...
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... COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE AND TRANSPORTATION HOLDS A HEARING ON AIRLINE CONSOLIDATION IMP... FOR AVIATION AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS SUSAN KURLAND. JEFFERY SMISEK, ... MACHINISTS AND AEROSPACE WORKERS. CHARLIE LEOCHA, DIRECTOR, ... also are in alliance with the Japanese Federation of Workers Union -- Workers Union. And I speak on...
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General review of the legal activities of the United Nations Membership of the United Nations 97 Peace and security (a) Peacekeeping missions and operations (b) Political and peacebuilding missions (c) Other bodies (d) Missions of the Security Council (e) Other peacekeeping matters (f) Action of Member States authorized by the Security Council (g) Sanctions imposed under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations (h) Terrorism (i) Humanitarian law and human rights in the context of peace and security (j) Piracy Disarmament and related matters (a) Disarmament machinery (b) Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferations issues (c) Biological and chemical weapons issues (d) Conventional weapons issues (e) Regional disarmament activities of the United Nations...
... rights, in the framework of the international community’s expectations in that regard . On 30 ... victims of domestic servitude, domestic workers and other community members . On 29 September 2010... (Morocco), Leonid Skotnikov (Russian Federation), Antônio A Cançado Trindade (Brazil), Abdulqaw... immigration and taxation; housing, transportation and parking; insurance, education and health; and ...
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BMW hired top U.S. union-hostile lawyers to help destroy California workers' jobs LOS ANGELES, July 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, hundreds of BMW employees and Teamster members protested outside the offices of law firm Jackson Lewis in Los Angeles, Calif., San Francisco, Calif., Seattle, Wash., Chicago, Ill. and New York City. Jackson Lewis is the top union-hostile law firm in the United States, and auto-giant BMW is using Jackson Lewis to help it outsource good, middle-class jobs at its parts distribution center in Ontario, Calif.
... Paddy Crumlin, President of the International Transport Workers' Federation. Each weekend, Teams...
