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Carnival Employees Protesting Cruise Line's Plan To Cut Miami Jobs

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Carnival Cruise Line employees protested outside the company's Doral headquarters Wednesday after learning 200 jobs will be outsourced.

About 12 protesters showed up at 5:30 p.m. with signs for passing cars to read.

On one sign, an employee wrote: "Carnival Dumps Waste And Their Workers."

Another sign read: "Carnival Outsources American Jobs!!!"

CBS4's Oralia Ortega was told the reason there aren't more employees picketing outside Carnival's office was because they're afraid of losing their jobs for participating in the protest.

Carnival is eliminating 140 out of 200 positions from the IT department in Miami and offering new jobs with six months of guaranteed employment with Capgemini headquartered in France.

Emails and documents obtained by CBS4 News, including employment agreements the workers are being pressured to sign, detail how the employees during that six-month employment period will participate in what is described as "knowledge transfer activities."

In a statement to CBS4 News, Carnival noted: "The company is transitioning its shore-side IT operations, maintenance and support in North America to an outside firm, Capgemini, to help the company keep pace with the evolving technology environment. All impacted individuals will become employees of Capgemini."

Basically, the employees are being terminated from Carnival and Capgemini is going to force them to train their cheaper replacements in India.

Carnival has denied the jobs would eventually be outsourced to foreign workers.

A copy of the Capgemini contract obtained by CBS4 News does not guarantee the workers the six months Carnival has publicly claimed. Instead the contract clearly states they are at-will employees who can be fired for any reason.

Officials for Capgemini, whose headquarters is in France and operates in 40 countries, did not respond to emails seeking their comment.

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