This seems particularly tacky and weird. Cast Members in uniform passing out anti-Disney union buttons and leaflets describing how they are "fighting oppression" from Disney at the entrance to Disneyland as their contract negotiations drag on.
Why even bother pretending it's a "show" any more?
Disneyland union hands out Mickey Mouse raised fist buttons to theme park visitors
Disney cast members asked arriving theme park visitors to sign a petition in support of union contract negotiations seeking fair wages.www.ocregister.com
"Disneyland’s largest union coalition took its fight for a pay raise to the streets by handing out Mickey Mouse raised fist buttons to visitors entering the Anaheim theme park.
Disneyland union employees distributed buttons on Monday, July 1 with the Disney icon’s white gloved hand raised in a fist as a symbol of fighting oppression and asked arriving theme park visitors to sign a petition in support of union contract negotiations seeking fair wages.
Cast members, Disney parlance for employees, handed out the buttons with Mickey’s cartoon fist at the corner of Harbor Boulevard and Disney Way while wearing their theme park uniforms."
Do you not see the inherent contradictions in all of this?Potrock should be directing Ops and costuming to figure out the logistics of building new locker rooms, change areas, and costuming areas for Disneyland and DCA and prohibiting CM's from taking their costumes off property as soon as possible. Such a bad look. Not to mention a resort wide initiative to figure out how to get these CM's to actually be decent employees.
A good friend of mine works attractions and said they're expecting a strike. Could be interesting to see if and how this develops.
Didn't the CM's get the 'fair wages' they were asking for a few years ago? What's the number they want so that we don't have to hear about this every couple years? Since Disneyland is now beholden to the Anaheim Fair Wage act thing from a few years ago, aren't they legally required to be paying a fair wage already?
What's even happened to Disneyland's workforce the last decade? They're frumpy, unkempt, and have no sense of how to deliver customer service. This is in part a failure of recruiting, it's in part a failure of management, and it's in part a failure of the union- that should be working to make sure the union members are exemplary employees. This is not that.
It took me long after working there to realize that I was being cheated. You were to be at your location at your shift start time but were given 15 minutes "walking time" at the end. They should have been paying us for standing in line for our costumes and changing into them. Maybe they couldn't get away with that any more?Do you not see the inherent contradictions in all of this?
The costumes being taken home is not an issue of logistics. Disney didn’t want to pay people for the time involved in getting a new costume every day and changing. Disney doesn’t want to pay for enough costumes available in the right sizes that are in demand so that it would be easy to get a costume every day without penalty.
Disney paying well and but also treating employees well is how they would attraction and retain top of the line staff.
Seems like to me as soon as you show up for costuming, you are working. It doesn't matter if it takes you fifteen minute more to get to the other end of the park. What stupid low level manager came up with that idea?It took me long after working there to realize that I was being cheated. You were to be at your location at your shift start time but were given 15 minutes "walking time" at the end. They should have been paying us for standing in line for our costumes and changing into them. Maybe they couldn't get away with that any more?
I suppose the statute of limitations is up.Seems like to me as soon as you show up for costuming, you are working. It doesn't matter if it takes you fifteen minute more to get to the other end of the park. What stupid low level manager came up with that idea?
They could not. Allowing cast members to take costumes home was the concession instead of paying for the time involved.It took me long after working there to realize that I was being cheated. You were to be at your location at your shift start time but were given 15 minutes "walking time" at the end. They should have been paying us for standing in line for our costumes and changing into them. Maybe they couldn't get away with that any more?
Around the same time Disney did it seems to be about the same time when the rest of the industry starting doing it as well. I remember working summers in the early 90s at my local amusement park where we had to go to costuming daily just like Disney. The next summer we were given two pairs of everything and asked to only come back to costuming when we needed replacements/repairs/etc. They did however offer to still launder our costumes if we requested it though, so that was nice.They could not. Allowing cast members to take costumes home was the concession instead of paying for the time involved.
The costumes being taken home is not an issue of logistics. Disney didn’t want to pay people for the time involved in getting a new costume every day and changing.
It took me long after working there to realize that I was being cheated. You were to be at your location at your shift start time but were given 15 minutes "walking time" at the end. They should have been paying us for standing in line for our costumes and changing into them. Maybe they couldn't get away with that any more?
They could not. Allowing cast members to take costumes home was the concession instead of paying for the time involved.
What, NO Boston Lobster Rolls…??
From the city where the American Revolution began..?
Wishing you a great 4th regardless, TP!
Potrock should be directing Ops and costuming to figure out the logistics of building new locker rooms, change areas, and costuming areas for Disneyland and DCA and prohibiting CM's from taking their costumes off property as soon as possible. Such a bad look. Not to mention a resort wide initiative to figure out how to get these CM's to actually be decent employees.
A good friend of mine works attractions and said they're expecting a strike. Could be interesting to see if and how this develops.
Didn't the CM's get the 'fair wages' they were asking for a few years ago? What's the number they want so that we don't have to hear about this every couple years? Since Disneyland is now beholden to the Anaheim Fair Wage act thing from a few years ago, aren't they legally required to be paying a fair wage already?
What's even happened to Disneyland's workforce the last decade? They're frumpy, unkempt, and have no sense of how to deliver customer service. This is in part a failure of recruiting, it's in part a failure of management, and it's in part a failure of the union- that should be working to make sure the union members are exemplary employees. This is not that.
Good points. I guess I'm differentiating between getting ready at home for your shift vs. needing to be at work by a certain time to prepare. Why is leaving compensated but not arriving? Sadly, if you're right they shouldn't get either.This is factually incorrect. Disney is now paying CM's more time than they were in the 20th century.
They are still paying what CM's call "walk time". Prior to DCA opening in 2001, it was 15 minutes of paid time at the end of your shift. For at least the past two decades, Disneyland increased the amount of "walk time" to 20 minutes.
Every hourly CM in Anaheim gets 20 minutes of paid "walk time" at the end of every single shift, allegedly to account for the need of going to the costuming department to exchange/check out new costumes. So if your off time is 6:00 PM, you are released from your shift every day at 5:40 PM and can head to your car, go to costuming, meet your friends at the CM backstage Starbucks, etc. and you still get paid as if you were off at 6:00 PM.
I would imagine the extra 15 minutes of paid time each day on the back end was to make up for the time it takes to change out of your costumes in the locker rooms they used to have near the CM exit off Harbor Blvd. They didn't do anything with paying you early because, using a very 20th century frame of mind, an employee is expected to get ready for work on their own time. Whether that's a stewardess doing her hair, makeup and uniform to comply with company standards before she drives to the airport, an Edison lineman putting on his boots, harness, hardhat and toolbelt before he clocks in to go to the truck, or a Disneyland CM doing their hair, makeup and uniform to comply with company standards before they walk over to Casa De Fritos.
Is the expectation of 21st century employees now that a company must pay them for the time it takes to shower, groom, dress in uniform, and prepare themselves to adhere to company standards prior to the start of their shift?
It seems the 21st century standard of 20 minutes of "walk time" is more appropriate, especially considering there are satellite parking logistics now involved for many CM's.
But they're paying more with today's 20 minutes of "walk time" compared to the previous 15 minutes of "walk time" when CM's had to leave their costumes on property and had dramatically higher standards of grooming and appearance than they do today.
How much more should they lower standards? Just issue everyone a Disneyland logo polo shirt, and ask the CM's to supply their own khaki pants and tennis shoes?
Good points. I guess I'm differentiating between getting ready at home for your shift vs. needing to be at work by a certain time to prepare. Why is leaving compensated but not arriving? Sadly, if you're right they shouldn't get either.
It’s all just lumped together as one single payment.Good points. I guess I'm differentiating between getting ready at home for your shift vs. needing to be at work by a certain time to prepare. Why is leaving compensated but not arriving? Sadly, if you're right they shouldn't get either.
Now I'm thinking they should be paid on the clock from the moment they line up for a shuttle until they're dropped off back at the parking lot after their shift.
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