Posted on 07/25/2018 3:41:04 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
Disneyland Resort workers' tentative contract agreement leaves room for Anaheim's 'living wage' ballot measure
The ugly battle over workers’ wages at the Happiest Place on Earth isn’t over.
Although Walt Disney Co. has reached a tentative contract agreement with four unions at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, the media giant and its workers have plenty of fight left in them when it comes to wages for the resort’s 30,000 staffers.
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Now the workers and Disney officials are turning their attention to an initiative that the union qualified for Anaheim’s Nov. 6 ballot. It would require the Disneyland Resort and other hospitality businesses that accept a city tax subsidy to pay a minimum of $15 an hour, with a $1 hourly increase each Jan. 1 until 2022.
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Disney and union leaders declined to disclose the pay hikes or other details of the contract that union members will consider approving Thursday, but it is possible, union officials say, that the ballot measure will not only increase wages beyond what is called for in the proposed contract but will extend those higher wages to most of the other resort employees not represented by the four unions.
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Disney definitely accepts tax subsidies - let's see how Anaheim voters will vote on this ballot initiative in November.
$20 an hour to schlep hotdogs?!
Can you imagine how much fun that place was for a seven year old boy? We lived in Chino, so we were there several times a year, when the park was still relatively new. Saw Robert Kennedy there days before he was killed.
Disney wanted to go full Lib,it can reap the consequences.
What’s it cost now to take the family to this amusement park for 1 day? $800.00+?
Just outrageous!
It’s already more than $100 a ticket. If this goes through I might never be able to take my family there again. I’ll have to stick to Sea World, Legoland and the San Diego Zoo. All of which are way cheaper.
No.
My living wage demand is now Jeff Bezos annual income. I will accept nothing less.
Socialists say: why should the dude who sweeps the furnace room in the building make .01% of the salary the CEO up on the top floor suite makes? Redistribute the wealth through socialism.
I want Bezos money. Now. Somebody call Ocasio and Bernie.
Somehow I doubt many Disney workers make less than $15 an hour. I would think attractions operators and maintenance folks would make near double that as they have a lot of responsibilities. Potential life and death responsibilities.
“$20 an hour to schlep hotdogs?!”
Yes, and with a perpetual smile on your face for eight hours.
I’ve got an old high school friend that’s worked for them for 20+ years and is in their union. Makes a little over 30k/year in lower management. I know he gets good medical (I’m hoping he’s got a union pension). But after all that time, that’s what a union “does” for you. Keeps you enslaved and never forced him to grow beyond himself - I doubt he’d be much better off if there had been no union.
It already costs over $100 for an all day pass at Disneyland. I can remember when I could go there all day for about $30. With free parking.
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