Carnival Cruise exploits workers, pays nearly zero in taxes

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You probably don't know Carnival Cruise paid a federal income tax rate of 1.1 percent on more than $11 billion in profit between 2004-09.

You may also not know the cruise line fired 150 workers from India last year for protesting their pay -- $1.20 an hour. They were working 350 hours a month for $400. Cruise Law News tells us what happened:

... for about 90 minutes the waiters engaged in a "good-humoured" demonstration dockside about the low wages....

Not only did Carnival prohibit them from returning to work on the Arcadia but banished them from working on any Carnival cruise ship world-wide.

In addition, Carnival instructed the hiring agency, Fleet Maritime Service International, which is registered in Bermuda to avoid taxes and labor regulations, to prohibit the waiters from ever working for Fleet Marine as well. The Guardian explains that "the Fleet payroll office is in the tax haven of Guernsey. Yet the letter is signed by an Edward Jones, the chief financial officer of Carnival UK."

Fleet Maritime is the largest employer of cruise ship personnel in India, and Carnival runs half of the world cruise market. So Carnival essentially "black balled" 150 cruise waiters from one-half of the world's cruise ships.

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