Disney offers Orlando union workers $15 per hour proposal that cuts protections

[TexasTowelie]

After months of negotiating, Walt Disney World has finally offered Orlando theme park workers a contract that would get them to a $15 hourly wage, but it comes at the cost of key union protections and benefits.

Disney's proposal would raise the current minimum wage ($10 per hour) about a dollar every year until reaching $15 per hour by the fall of 2021. The company will also distribute the $1,000 bonus it previously denied to employees with the Service Trades Council Union until a contract was approved.

In exchange, though, workers would have to concede benefits regarding overtime, holiday pay, grievance procedures and scheduling.

"Almost every one of those proposals was taking back benefits or conditions on employment we had bargained for over last 45 years," says Ed Chambers, president of UFCW Local 1625 and chair of the coalition of six unions. "They're basically wiping out 45 years of progress."

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[Sherman A1]

1. I would vote no

But it is up to the bargaining unit to decide.