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Disneyland employees averted a onslaught and voted for a caller declaration that includes a 19% wage hike of $3 per hr implicit 3 years and bonuses for long-time workers aft a contentious national dialog that threatened to disrupt the Happiest Place connected Earth.
Disneyland national members represented by Master Services Council voted connected Friday, Dec. 3 to judge a caller three-year declaration aft rejecting an identical connection connected Nov. 17.
“The Disneyland edifice is pleased that formed members of the Disneyland parkland represented by the Master Services Council ratified a caller corporate bargaining agreement,” according to a Disneyland spokesperson. “Cast members from Disney California Adventure parkland and Downtown Disney District antecedently ratified the aforesaid connection connected November 17th. We are arrogant of the competitory wage and payment offer, which provides humanities increases implicit 3 years, continuing to outpace the California minimum wage.”
The yes ballot avoids a precise nationalist showdown betwixt Disneyland and its workers. A nary ballot would person authorized the national to clasp a strike.
The Master Services Council represents astir 10,000 formed members astatine Disneyland, Disney California Adventure and Downtown Disney that enactment successful attractions, retail, custodial, ticketing, parking and different departments.
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The national conjugation represents astir 40% of the 25,000 Disneyland edifice formed members — Disney parlance for employees.
The projected contracts for Disneyland, Disney California Adventure and Downtown Disney national employees were negotiated jointly but voted connected separately.
Disney California Adventure and Downtown Disney employees accepted the caller three-year declaration connected Nov. 17 and didn’t ballot a 2nd time. Only Disneyland national members participated during the 2nd circular of voting connected Thursday and Friday, Dec. 2 and 3.
Disneyland’s declaration connection did not alteration aft the Nov. 17 vote, according to national officials.
The tentative statement endorsed by Master Services Council enactment raises minimum wage from $15.50 to $18.50 per hr — a 19% increase.
DCA and Downtown Disney employees that accepted the declaration person already received a $2 per hr wage summation with different $1 per hr acceptable to instrumentality effect successful June 2023.
Cast members with 20 years of employment person a bonus of $2,000 for full-timers and $1,000 for part-timers with 10-year employees getting a $1,000 full-time/$500 part-time bonus.
Disneyland’s connection outpaces California’s minimum wage, which is acceptable to emergence from $14 to $15 per hr successful 2022.
A pandemic-related nationwide hiring crunch has forced companies to rise wages and connection bonuses to pull and clasp employees arsenic workers proceed to discontinue their jobs astatine grounds rates.
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The Master Services Council is simply a conjugation of respective Disneyland worker unions including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Service Employees International, United Food and Commercial Workers and Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ International.
A 1984 national onslaught with picket lines extracurricular Disneyland lasted 3 weeks and led to an statement that resulted successful a two-year wage freeze. Disneyland remained unfastened during the “Friendliest Strike On Earth” with non-union bureau workers operating rides and fulfilling different taxable parkland duties, according to the OC Weekly.
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