Some Disneyland Employees Are Facing Homelessness Working At ‘The Happiest Place On Earth’ (HBO)
ANAHEIM, California — Low-wage workers are being priced out of Orange County, the posh suburbs south of Los Angeles. That’s especially true in the city of Anaheim, and its largest employer: Disney.
The unions representing Disney’s lowest-paid workers have banded with other unions in Anaheim to put a measure on the ballot: a new minimum wage for the hotel and restaurant workers at the city’s largest resorts that would pay $15 per hour by 2019, and gradually increase to $18 per hour by 2022. (California’s minimum wage is set to increase to $15 per hour in 2021.) Raises thereafter would be at least 2 percent per year.
The push for a ballot measure has drawn the ire of the city, and Disney itself. The company is co-funding the group pushing against the measure, with the subtle name No To The Anaheim Job Killer Initiative.
Anaheim Chamber of Commerce President Todd Ament said the measure, if enacted, would drive off future investment and kill two luxury hotel project planned for Anaheim.
Disney workers say they can’t live in Anaheim — or most places in Orange County — while earning less than $15 per hour.
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The problem is that Anaheim has become one of the country’s most expensive places to live, and wages haven’t kept up.
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Disney is just as malevolent as any business. They’ve just created a very effective facade of kid friendly mouse ears to hide behind. Sounds cynical but search your feelings…you know it to be true
Crazy that I’ve never heard of any shooting at Disney
The problem is they're giving all their money away in Union dues for nothing
Companies now days care only about profits and their bottom line. The excuse to why they started to be less caring, was a couple articles that came out in the 90's that said employees no longer had loyalty to their employer, so once one company started treating their employees less, and also started to make more profits, many other companies followed. There are Military Contractor jobs that now pay like Walmart, where they should be paying more, due to the knowledge and training and skill level on the employee. Excuses for low wages that I've heard are: It's because of the county we're in, this is a training factory, or my favorite: It's because 100% of the Union 1821 members have to attend the meetings, even though our due are paying for their representation on our behalf, wages that make rent, food, and utilities payments possible.
this is the same company that threw the Software Engineers that had created all their systems on the streets and then replaced them with cheap labor from overseas… Disney has no basic respect for their employees, shame!
idk if this is corporate greed but one thing is true the middle class is dying and disneyland suffers in attendance because of that.
How the eff is it not already at 15 dollars an hour? In Cali you can work at Carl's Jr. for $10 an hour, and the Disney job is a REALLY HARD JOB. It's expensive to live in Cali, too. And hot. Are they out of their minds?????? Pay them more.
Capitalism:
99% for the owner
1% for the worker
The starting salary should be well above 17$ an hour to adjust for inflation. 15$ an hour was more in line in the 1990s. It's just flat out greed. They're not even trying to hide the fact, they are very well aware. Disney could easily fix this, but will never.
You blame disney, not the local government? Try lower tax rates, lower cost of living, lower gas and food prices. Or even your own vanity.
The 80 % that says they are ok with it , its because they leave with mommy and daddy wait til they have to pay bills , they will scream HELL👿DISNEY IS SHIT.
What, Disney land can't build dormitories for the employees….?!
I'm interested in what science has to do with this sort of thing because that response…….
Homelessness is made of bad spending habits not wages… not Disney’s fault
Funny how Vice (Vice Media) is exposing Disney. Its parent company of A+E Networks which Disney owns! Yeah Disney owns Vice, Vice is owned by Disney! IRONIC!
You’ve worked there 30 years and u make 15.70?!? Wow
When the minimum wage is $15.00 per hour, how much will a day pass be?
At the end of the day Disney is evil af
Minimum wage rises and everything else skyrockets go out and get a real career
It would seem that most folks who have this kind of problem, are people who have held on to an old way of thinking. That being you keep a job for a long time. Really, the new key to making money is working 1-2 years at a place for experience, and then leaving for another job with better pay, and repeat. Your wages will of course stay stagnant when your job stays stangnant.
What I don't understand is why can't Rich companies pay for the work done?
As the end of the day businesses like Disney are profit grabbing corporations who don’t really care until they have to
Remember businesses do what's good for the business, not necessarily for the individual employees. The must realize that without the employees there wouldn't be a business.
That lady who answered her door was kind of rude. “You need to change your pen” why didn’t she just ask if she had another pen
Unions that is why they have unions
'Just find another job' is such a bad argument.
Skilled workers want higher minimum wage because it makes employers hire skilled labor first.
Anaheim is a terrible place to live anyway.
isn't there a way to stop inflation/ can someone explain how that would happen/
Omg Glynndana is a beautiful person! you can tell she loves where she works and I'm sure every guest interaction she has helps make that person's trip to Disney even more magical…..I do wish she got paid more so she can live on her own
the freedom of being able to leave a job and search for a better one.
"What if they are 58, who's going to train them?" "Well that's a decision they made." You decided to live to 58. Sorry bad choice. Murica!
People do not want to take personal responsibility for their life choices! If your job do not pay you what you think your labor is worthy, then get another job. If you do not qualify to get a better paying job, get educated and trained so you can qualify. It is not your employers' responsibility to take care of you. You are an adult, take care of yourself!