1.   Also at issue are provisions requiring maritime workers to pass criminal background checks similar to those now imposed on most airport employees.

2.   By instructing juries in Jones Act cases accordingly, courts can give proper effect to the remedial scheme Congress has created for injured maritime workers.

3.   But with The Harrisburg in place, troubling anomalies had developed that many times precluded the survivors of maritime workers from recovering for deaths caused by an unseaworthy vessel.

4.   Nevertheless, we believe that courts, employers, and maritime workers can all benefit from reference to these general principles.

5.   Such an approach, however, would run counter to our prior decisions and our understanding of the remedial scheme Congress has established for injured maritime workers.

6.   The Coast Guard and the FBI have already enlisted harbor, terminal and other maritime workers to report suspicious activities.

7.   French maritime workers partially lifted a blockade of the northern port of Calais on Wednesday, allowing two ferries to leave for England.

8.   In Sydney, Australian maritime workers began an indefinite campaign of refusing to unload French-owned and registered ships.

9.   Maritime workers held a French ship in Melbourne as a Bastille Day protest.

10.   In a separate Australian protest, maritime workers voted here Friday to ban the entry of French ships to Australian ports.