Disneyland workers want to strike - but love the magic
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Workers at Disneyland are considering a strike because pay at the 'Happiest place on Earth' has left many unable to meet rent.

Cynthia “Cyn” Carranza meticulously scavenged for a shady parking spot in the car she called home.

The overnight custodian at Disneyland has to sleep during the day - a difficulty for anyone, let alone when you’re living in your car with two dogs. Ms Carranza says she makes $20.65 an hour (about £15.99) at the park but last summer, she couldn’t afford rent in this Southern California city where the average apartment can run more than $2,000 (about £1,550) a month.

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Ms Carranza, like others who work at the park, detailed to the BBC the financial hardships that come with working at what’s supposed to be the “Happiest Place on Earth”. About 10,000 union workers at Disneyland - the first of 12 parks created around the globe - are threatening to strike over the wages and what they say are retaliatory anti-union practices.

Hundreds of workers protested outside the park this week, with an array of signs and pins showing Mickey Mouse’s gloved fist in defiance.

“Mickey would want fair pay,” workers chanted outside Disneyland near the park’s gates.

They voted almost unanimously to authorise strike action on Friday, just days before union contract negotiations for workers are set to resume.

  • @[email protected]
    57•2 months ago

    You don’t understand. If they paid her and the rest of the employees what would be a living wage, they would make only $32.4 billion. See? It can’t be done.

    • MattEnglish
      33•2 months ago

      I ran the numbers and it’s actually $31.46 billion. But you’re not far off.

    • @ripcord
      2•2 months ago

      Why would their revenue be lower…?

      • MattEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        True, the revenue wouldn’t be lower. But profit would be about a billion dollars lower. We don’t know what else their expenditures are, but salaries are usually the highest cost in a corporation. In this case, raising pay eats into profits by about 2.8%.

        • @ripcord
          -1•2 months ago

          OK, but people are talking about revenue numbers, which sounds stupid.