The Safeguarding the Supply Chain Act would extend the Railway Labor Act to cover maritime workers and employers for the first time. Currently, the Railway Labor Act applies only to railroad and airline workers, but this bill would bring maritime industry employees under the same labor dispute resolution system. The legislation would establish a National Maritime Adjustment Board to handle grievances and disputes over pay, rules, and working conditions, modeled after the existing National Railroad Adjustment Board, and would transfer any pending maritime labor cases from the National Labor Relations Board to the National Mediation Board. The bill authorizes whatever funding is necessary for the National Mediation Board to administer these new maritime provisions. This change would affect all maritime employers and their employees engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, fundamentally altering how labor disputes are resolved in the shipping and maritime industries.
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