

The US Biden administration and governments throughout the world are minimizing the dangers posed by Omicron in order to justify a policy of profits before health and safety. No confidence can be placed in the rapacious cruise ship operators or their paid political operatives. This situation poses the urgent need for cruise industry workers to take independent action to protect their health and lives through the building of independent workers committees to monitor the health and safety of the population and protect lives. Only this time, the corporate establishment is determined to keep operations running no matter the cost to human life and health. Following the hasty reopening of the cruise ship industry after the global shutdown in 2020, during which at least 70 people died and approximately 200,000 crew members were left stranded around the world, another wave of infection threatens to destabilize the industry. Thousands of cruise ship crews and passengers around the world are threatened by the rapidly spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
