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Disney’s Magic Kingdom Losing Its Sparkle For Workers
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/magic_kingdom_losing_its_sparkle_for_workers
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014, 5:27 pm
BY Bruce Vail
As workers prepare to negotiate new labor agreements at Walt Disney World, some union members are wondering whether the magic has disappeared from the happiest place on earth.
The resorts largest labor contract, which covers some 35,400 workers, is due to expire at the end of March. Though formal negotiations toward a new agreement havent yet begun, says Ed Chambers, president of Lakeland, Fla.-based United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1625, there are already signs of difficulties ahead.
The Service Trades Council, an association of six union locals representing over 35,400 Disney employees, is negotiating a new contract with the resort. (Walt Disney World International Program/Creative Commons)
Chambers leads a coalition of six different union locals known as the Service Trades Council, which will hammer out new contracts with Disney in the coming months. According to Chambers, the council saw its first clear signs of unrest in August 2013, when resort managers offered to extend the existing contract for another 16 months and raise wages 3.5 percent. Though the council ultimately declined the offer, he says, some union leaders are now unsure whether Disney can be convinced to improve on it.
Jeremy Cruz-Haicken, president of hospitality union Unite Here Local 737also a member of the Service Trades Councilargues that Disneys offer just didnt do enough to protect workers. The proposed wage hike was better than unions have gotten from Disney in other recent contracts, he tells Working In These Times, but its still less than what workers deserve.
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Disney’s Magic Kingdom Losing Its Sparkle For Workers (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Jan 2014
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Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)1. What are John Bolton and Marco Rubio
Doing at Disneyworld?
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)2. I always heard that it is a terrible place to work
I know a lot of people from the Villages work a week a year for the free passes but they hate it. I almost think it would be worth just buying the tickets. I know some can't afford it but what a way to get free passes.