Disneyland Workers Ratify New Contract After Strike Authorization Vote

Just a week aft workers astatine Disney’s Anaheim-based parks and hotels voted successful favor of authorizing a onslaught that could’ve seen the archetypal walkout astatine Disneyland successful 40 years, the national conjugation Disney Workers Rising has announced the ratification of a new-three twelvemonth contract.

DWR, a coalition of 4 unions representing 14,000 workers astatine some Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure, the “Downtown Disney” buying and eating territory betwixt the 2 parks, and the assorted Disney-owned hotels successful the area, announced this greeting that the caller declaration volition bring the minimum basal wage complaint for employees up to $24 an hr successful 2024, effectual instantly with the caller contract, with astir workers receiving a $6.10 beyond that implicit the word duration of the contract. Other gains successful the declaration see improvements to attendance and sick permission policies, arsenic good arsenic caller premiums and accrued longevity for elder formed members (Disney’s catch-all word for employees astatine its parks, from cashiers, to thrust operators, to custodians and candy makers).

“By ratifying these contracts, Disney formed members person secured historical raises and policies and protections that bespeak their relation arsenic magic makers successful the Disney parks,” the Disney Workers Rising Bargaining Committee said successful a connection (via THR). “For months hard-working formed members person stood unneurotic astatine the bargaining array and successful the parks to guarantee Disney recognized what they bring to the taxable parkland experience, and these contracts are a factual and nonstop effect of this tireless work.”

Negotiations connected the caller declaration had began astatine the extremity of April, up of expiration connected the existent declaration for Disneyland employees, which occurred connected June 16, and the abstracted declaration for Disney California Adventure and Downtown Disney employees, which had been acceptable to expire September 30. The quality comes astatine an important clip for the parks: conscionable days earlier negotiations connected this caller declaration began, Anaheim City Council unanimously approved a $1.9 cardinal enlargement plan for Disneyland implicit the adjacent 40 years, including caller attractions and lodgings that could bring up to astir 9,000 jobs implicit the people of construction, and different astir 4,600 during eventual operations. All of those caller hirings were described astatine the clip arsenic being “100% national labour with a absorption connected hiring Anaheim residents and veterans.”

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