A Cruiser's "Bill of Rights"

[shrimp56]

Thought this would be of interest.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/23/travel/cruise-passengers-bill-of-rights/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5

[PathfinderEss]

Thanks for posting the link, very interesting. Not surprising after all that has happen in the last few years.

[iancal]

I do not think that a 'cruisers bill of rights' put forward by an industry group will really have significant impact. Nor can you expect it to have any teeth. The cruise industry is an oligopoly...they have little interest in this.

 

|The cruise lines spend millions of dollars each year on lobby efforts to ensure that that their passengers and their employees do no fall under any of those pesky consumer laws and labor laws that firms in America are subject to.

[mariner]

More like lipstick on a pig.

 

How bout we'll maintain our vessels to minimize the chance of mishap and train our captains not to joyride.

[HamOp]

Nothing more than a rather transparent preemptive strike to ward off legislation by the U.S. Congress.

[shrimp56]

More like lipstick on a pig.

 

How bout we'll maintain our vessels to minimize the chance of mishap and train our captains not to joyride.

 

Actually I agree. It seemed pretty toothless. Was hoping to get more of a discussion going.

[mariner]

It's the holiday and most people figure Congress can't manage to talk and walk at the same time.

[indokiwi]

|The cruise lines spend millions of dollars each year on lobby efforts to ensure that that their passengers and their employees do no fall under any of those pesky consumer laws and labor laws that firms in America are subject to.

 

We attended a "Coffee Chat" one morning on our last cruise that was hosted by the Cruise Director. He was interviewing the Human Resource Manager who told us all that the Holland America Line employees at sea are subject to Dutch Labor Laws, which are actually STRICTER than American labor laws. Also, he mentioned that all cruise lines are subject to the Maritime Labour Convention - International Labor Organization 2006 (I had to look it up...http://www.ilo.org/global/standards/maritime-labour-convention/lang--en/index.htm) which changes a lot of things for the better as to how employees are treated. Take a look.

[mariner]

The issue is Carnival, not HAL

[indokiwi]

The issue is Carnival, not HAL

 

Carinival is subject to the same ILO convention