MoonRakerSCM
Well-Known Member
I looked into this a bit last night as I was intrigued. There are rulings stating that employees have the right to wear union paraphernalia at work. HOWEVER, employers can have policies (such as costuming of cast members) that do not allow it and that the special circumstances for maintaining the policies need to be proven.
"NLRB, 324 U.S. 793 (1945), the Board held that if an employer's dress code policy in any way interfered with an employees' statutory right to display union insignia at work, the employer's policy was subject to strict scrutiny and the employer would be required to prove special circumstances for maintaining the policy."
This being said, obviously things such as safety would prevail but I think there certainly is an argument to be had that the on-stage show of a Disney park is the product offering to a customer and the costuming is a major part of it. It's certainly different for employees working behind the scenes, desk jobs, after hours maintenance, or anything that is not part of the show (product). Disney could argue that their costume policies are part of their product to their customers and their policies are in place to protect public appearance and revenue (inferring that going against their policies would harm their business practice and create losses).
Does anyone have any word or evidence or rumors of CMs ONSTAGE wearing the things?
If you want to protest, do it on your own time, not the companies time. Arguably the wearing of pins on stage is a form of protest with direct outreach to the public (vs. showing solidarity with other employees in a normal employee setting).
These people here don't look like they give a rat's behind about any sort of 'show'-
On top of all this, Disney has been eroding its standards for costuming and cast member presentation for years... so why should personal 'flair' be any different? Give people an inch and they'll take a mile. Disney let the CMs look like they work at 7-11 in Albuquerque if they want to, so what does it matter any more.
"NLRB, 324 U.S. 793 (1945), the Board held that if an employer's dress code policy in any way interfered with an employees' statutory right to display union insignia at work, the employer's policy was subject to strict scrutiny and the employer would be required to prove special circumstances for maintaining the policy."
This being said, obviously things such as safety would prevail but I think there certainly is an argument to be had that the on-stage show of a Disney park is the product offering to a customer and the costuming is a major part of it. It's certainly different for employees working behind the scenes, desk jobs, after hours maintenance, or anything that is not part of the show (product). Disney could argue that their costume policies are part of their product to their customers and their policies are in place to protect public appearance and revenue (inferring that going against their policies would harm their business practice and create losses).
Does anyone have any word or evidence or rumors of CMs ONSTAGE wearing the things?
If you want to protest, do it on your own time, not the companies time. Arguably the wearing of pins on stage is a form of protest with direct outreach to the public (vs. showing solidarity with other employees in a normal employee setting).
These people here don't look like they give a rat's behind about any sort of 'show'-
On top of all this, Disney has been eroding its standards for costuming and cast member presentation for years... so why should personal 'flair' be any different? Give people an inch and they'll take a mile. Disney let the CMs look like they work at 7-11 in Albuquerque if they want to, so what does it matter any more.
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