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To: RightOnTheBorder

“Well, I guess if you want to push 50% of Cruise ships out of the US and into Canadian, Mexican, and Carribean ports this would be a good start.”

One of the cruise lines attempted to use three US Flagged cruise ships in/around Hawaii. The cruise line said they were responding to requests to employ more US workers. Pretty well flopped since the crews were US union workers. Lousy service, surly crew members, etc. Had to


20 posted on 03/17/2013 1:37:52 PM PDT by DugwayDuke
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To: DugwayDuke
One of the cruise lines attempted to use three US Flagged cruise ships in/around Hawaii. The cruise line said they were responding to requests to employ more US workers. Pretty well flopped since the crews were US union workers. Lousy service, surly crew members, etc. Had to

I read about that. The company was losing multi millions per year and eventually shut down the Hawaiian experiment.

36 posted on 03/17/2013 8:26:26 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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