Bernie Sanders will meet Disney workers in Anaheim on June 2, ahead of proposed ballot measure

[Hassin Bin Sober]

Bernie Sanders will meet Disney workers in Anaheim on June 2, ahead of proposed ballot measure to raise wages


https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/18/bernie-sanders-will-meet-disney-workers-in-anaheim-on-june-2-ahead-of-proposed-ballot-measure-to-raise-wages/


Sen. Bernie Sanders, a vocal critic of the Walt Disney Co. since his 2016 presidential campaign, is coming to Anaheim to meet with workers from businesses in and around the Disneyland Resort.

Sanders will be in town Saturday, June 2, for a roundtable-type event where he’ll talk with a selection of people from a variety of industries that serve the theme park, nearby hotels and other related businesses, said Andrew Cohen, a spokesman for Unite Here Local 11. The event at River Church is open to the public.

Unite Here is one of 11 unions in a coalition that is backing an initiative that would raise wages for workers at hospitality businesses – including Disney – that have received subsidies from Anaheim. The ballot measure seeks to raise wages at affected businesses to at least $15 an hour in 2019 and to $18 an hour by 2022.

Supporters turned in signatures to the City Clerk on May 1 trying to qualify the measure for the November ballot. The signatures are being validated.

“I think Sen. Sanders is like a leading voice on American inequality and has been championing the rights of workers in a way that sadly not a lot of politicians do right now,” Cohen said.

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1. Where are the Dems in the state/district/etc. on this one?

I'm assuming they support the workers/unions?

Not being snarky, just asking. I would really hope that they do. This is a no brainer and something they should be a united front on.

What is Disney going to do if they don't like it? Move Disneyworld to another state?

[Hortensis]

4. Old pattern. For 60-70 years or so a whole pack of

unions, a couple dozen or more, have represented Disney labor, quarreling, cooperating here and there, mostly going their own ways. We lived for decades in LA and have a career Disney employee for a friend, retired for a while now, but never even began to understood it, or frankly tried. This zoo of individual empires presumably worked okay while wages and benefits were livable and probably for another decade or so after the Reagan era started the long, drastic slide into poverty.

I don't remember any of these endorsing a political party, but that doesn't mean anything. Orange County had always been famously strongly conservative, though. Unions do always lobby in seats of power, of course, but their specific reps and power links would normally have mostly been the Republicans or other conservatives that elect people and get elected down there.

In any case, it took these vegetative groups something like a generation and more too long, but a couple years ago some of them formed a coalition for the first time ever (!!!) to work monolithically. Yes, amazing. Probably a bunch of the old power structures died off or something. That's all I think I have an idea of. No doubt their histories would fill a bunch of ibrary shelves.

In any case, that's presumably the group Bernie has this speaking engagement with now.

[LongTomH]

2. K&R for Bernie!!!!!

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Hassin Bin Sober

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5. Interesting

Another Sanders post. Maybe I apologized too quickly.