Disney, hotel workers reach tentative agreement to raise wages, grant $1,000 bonuses

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https://www.ocregister.com/2018/09/...-agreement-to-raise-wages-grant-1000-bonuses/

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After a year and a half of negotiations, Disneyland Resort hotel workers appear to have struck a deal with their employer, which would raise wages nearly $2 an hour and in same cases more.


Unite Here Local 11 reached a tentative contract agreement with Disney late Monday that would cover about 2,700 of its 3,000 members, union spokesman Austin Lynch said.


It would increase starting wages for most of those workers from $13.25 to $15 an hour on Jan. 31, and it would deliver $1,000 employee bonuses the company announced in January following a federal cut in corporate taxes. It would immediately raise housekeepers’ pay to $15.85 an hour.


In a statement, Walt Disney Co. spokeswoman Liz Jaeger said the proposal provides “industry-leading wage increases” that would represent a 40 percent hike for workers over the next two years, and it “demonstrates Disney’s commitment to its valued cast members.” The increase to at least $15 an hour is happening “three years ahead of California’s minimum wage,” she said.<<

The proposed deal with hotel workers, who will vote on it this Friday through Sunday, comes on the heels of recent agreements that will push pay for about 7,000 non-union workers to $15.75 an hour in December and move about 9,700 unionized ride operators, janitors and other theme park workers to $15 an hour in early 2019.<<

Glad to see the Members got their Leaders to agree. Notice that the Pay Raises for most start in February, a month after the Master Services Council and non-Union members get theirs. A penalty for delaying the agreement that has been on the table for a few months.

 

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney-hotel-workers-20180918-story.html#

>>The workers are scheduled to vote on the four-year contract Friday, Saturday and Sunday. If approved, the contract would take effect Sept. 24.

“We are pleased to have reached a tentative agreement with Unite Here Local 11 that provides a 40% increase in minimum wages for our cast members over the next two years,” Disneyland Resort spokeswoman Liz Jaeger said.

The contract will pay housekeepers at least $15.80 an hour, she said.

In addition to raising the minimum wage, the new agreement includes “fair workloads for housekeepers” and “a new, affordable health insurance option,” according to union officials who declined to provide more details pending the membership vote.<<

 

[The Mur]

Well Unite Here leadership did a a great job of riding on the coat tails of all the other unions that agreed earlier.

 

[Practical Pig]

I wonder where wages would be now if they had increased at the same pace as Disney's ticket pricing?

 

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http://www.anaheimblog.net/2018/09/...ement-on-minimum-wage-hikes-as-high-as-15-85/

>>The Disneyland Resort and UNITE-HERE Local 11 – the militant union that represents primarily hotel workers – have reached tentative agreement on a contract that will boost the minimum wage for nearly all Local 11 members to at least $15 an hour, with housekeepers getting an immediate bump to $15.85. Employees would also receive the $1,000 bonus payment provided as a result of the Republican tax cut passed last year.


Per the announcement from Disneyland Resort spokesperson Liz Jaeger:

Disney and Unite Here! Local 11 reach tentative agreement to raise pay to one of the highest entry-level wages in the U.S. service industry​

Forty percent pay increase brings minimum rates to $15 an hour or higher by 2019​

ANAHEIM, Ca. September 18, 2018 – Leaders from Disneyland Resort and representatives from Unite Here! Local 11 have reached a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement that will provide industry-leading wage increases for all Unite Here! Local 11-represented hourly, non-tipped Cast Members. ​

In a statement released today, “We are pleased to have reached a tentative agreement with Unite Here! Local 11 that provides a 40% increase in minimum wages for our Cast Members over the next two years. Upon ratification, housekeepers immediately will receive $15.80/hour, with other minimum rate Cast Members moving to $15 in January, three years ahead of California’s minimum wage.”​

Unite Here! Local 11, which represents 2,700 cast members, will join thousands of other cast members benefitting from recently ratified agreements, along with other hourly non-union cast members, all earning minimum rates of $15 or more by January 2019, three years ahead of California’s minimum wage.​

Union representatives will be organizing a contract ratification vote this weekend and will recommend a yes vote by Cast Members.​

This is the second significant contract agreement reached this summer between Disneyland Resort and it largest unions. In July, the Disneyland Resort announced it reached agreement with its largest labor unions for a minimum wage rate increase of 40 percent within two years of the agreement. This put 9,700 cast members represented by Master Services Council at $15 per hour by 2019. The agreement demonstrates Disney’s commitment to its valued cast members.​

The agreement must by ratified by a vote of Local 11 members over the weekend.


Nothwithstanding the wage increase agreement, UNITE-HERE Local 11 inists it is not backing off it high-dollar campaign to pass Measure L, the so-called “living wage” initiative that would spike the minimum wage at targeted Anaheim business – beginning at $15 an hour in January 2019 and escalating to $18 an hour by January 2022. That would be the highest minimum wage in the nation.