Hearing On Hr 1517 Foreign Flag Ships

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Excerpt from Hearing on H. R. 1517, Foreign Flag Ships: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Occupational Health and Safety of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, May 13, 1993 The us. Is already a party, in fact, to International Convention 147, which establishes minimum standards in merchant ships and provides for protection against poor working conditions on vessels. The treaty allows port states to exercise appropriate authority in response to complaints of foreign seamen about working conditions on foreign flag ships. In previous years, I have asked for a study of how ilo 147, which is the international law to which I make reference, is work ing and whether or not it is effective. If changes are needed and the enforcement mechanisms under ilo 147 are not effective, then we Obviously should work with international labor organizations to address those issues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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