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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> <BR> <BR>New passenger ships are built every year, and some appear on occasional trans-Atlantic trips. Cunard's Queen Mary 2 offers sailings between Southampton and New York at prices that sometime dip under $1,000 per person. That's competitive with the airline rate.<BR> <BR>Cunard is now owned by Carnival. And there is probably a sign posted at the ship hiring office: "Americans not wanted". Fred's article says it all: our government wants to dictate labor rates, but a multinational company can look elsewhere. That's why cruise ships make sure they visit at least one foreign port on a cruise - to avoid US minimum wage rates. <BR> <BR>There's still steerage class on the trans-Atlantic route. Today it's called Economy class on an airline. <BR> <BR> <BR><br> <BR><div>> From: fwschneider@comcast.net<br>> Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 17:36:54 -0400<br>> To: pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>> Subject: [PRCo] Sometimes we get it right...<br>> <br>> <br>> Sometimes, perhaps by accident or inertia, we get it right. While other countries were mistakenly building ships that would be empty only a dozen years later after Boeing introduced the 707 jet, we claimed we had no money….<br>> <br>> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5121%2C3739461<br>> <br>> Oh well. We still have the SS United States sitting in a dock with dreamers thinking you can preserve a ship for tourist visitors. <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<br>> Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>> https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<br></div> </div>
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