Walt Disney World labor unions reject offer

Share
Disney
Walt Disney World entrance in 2010. photo By Jrobertiko (Denis Adriana Macias) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

The collection of six labor unions representing 38,000 full time and part-time Walt Disney World employees recently rejected a minor wage increase from the tourism giant.

WMNF News interviewed Ed Chambers, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1625 and of the collection of six unions, known as the Service Trades Council of Unions. Chambers says they’ll head back into negotiations with Disney next month.

“The company had offered a 3% raise with a minimum of 50 cents (per hour),” Chambers said. “The contract was rejected on the 20th of December. We go back in to bargaining on February 12th.”

Listen:

Previous WMNF stories:

http://www.wmnf.org/disney-workers-living-poverty-pay-raise/

http://www.wmnf.org/unions-fight-living-wage-disney-workers/

 

Leave a Reply

  • (will not be published)

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

You may also like

A man in a white long sleeve dress shirt, with headphones on his head
Talking Cuba with Al Fox, and Florida maternity homes with Laura C. Morel

After South Florida, Tampa’s population of Cubans is larger than...

Hurricane Helene
There’s still time to apply for Hurricane Helene relief

Deadlines to apply for a loan from the U.S. Small...

The Scoop: Fri. Nov. 15, 2024, Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF

Rays stadium deal is still in question after a vote...

Pam Bondi
Donald Trump selects Pam Bondi for attorney general after Matt Gaetz withdraws

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi was nominated Thursday by...

Ways to listen

WMNF is listener-supported. That means we don't advertise like a commercial station, and we're not part of a university.

Ways to support

WMNF volunteers have fun providing a variety of needed services to keep your community radio station alive and kickin'.

Follow us on Instagram

Art in Your Ear
Player position: