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- workreform
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- workreform
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.
You’re making a lot of assumptions about my choices. I choose to live well below my means because I don’t want this to happen to me. I don’t have pets, despite wanting them. I didn’t buy a nice house on an expensive loan; I rent a small crappy place in a decently safe area. I don’t buy cars on loans, I fix them myself until I need to buy a new one in cash… I live as if I make half as much as I do, and have done so since working my way through school.
She should be making 40+/HR for what she does. Hard work out in the sun all day is brutal and should be adequately compensated. But until society figures it’s shit out, people have to be willing to make hard choices. It can be done, it’s just hard and people generally don’t like making hard choices.
As usual, all nuance is lost on some people who insist on a world of blacks and whites