Blacking

Blacking in Maritime Law

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The following is a definition of Blacking, produced by Tetley, in the context of admiralty law: A practice used by certain seafarers’ trades union against flag-of-convenience shipowners to compel them, by measures causing economic duress (e.g. refusing to load or discharge ships or to allow them to set sail), to sign collective labour agreements with unions with the trade union doing the “blacking”. See Tetley, Int’l C. of L., 1994 at pp. 234-236.