[PRCo] Sometimes we get it right...

[John Swindler]

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.
 
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.  
 
There's still steerage class on the trans-Atlantic route.  Today it's called Economy class on an airline.  
 
 

 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 17:36:54 -0400
> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Sometimes we get it right...
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> 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….
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> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5121%2C3739461
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> Oh well.   We still have the SS United States sitting in a dock with dreamers thinking you can preserve a ship for tourist visitors.   
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