Disney World reaches deal with union on minimum $18 hourly wage
Source: CNBC
Unions for service workers at Walt Disney World reached a tentative deal with the company on Thursday that would raise the starting minimum wage from $15 to $18 an hour by the end of the year in a pact that could set the basement for starting pay throughout central Floridas sprawling tourism industry.
Disney World service workers who are in the six unions that make up the Service Trades Council Union coalition planned to vote next Wednesday on the contract proposal after rejecting an earlier offer that fell short of the $18 hourly minimum wage last month. The agreement covers around 45,000 service workers at the Disney theme park resort outside Orlando. Workers could see their hourly wages rise between $5.50 and $8.60 by the end of the five-year contract if its approved, union leaders said.
Securing an $18 minimum hourly rate this year, increasing the overall economic value of Disneys original offer, and ensuring full back pay for every worker are the priorities union members were determined to fight for, said Matt Hollis, head of the coalition of unions. Today, we won that fight.
Disney said in a statement that the tentative deal also included industry-leading benefits in health insurance coverage and tuition reimbursement. Our cast members are central to Walt Disney Worlds enduring magic, which is why we are pleased to have reached this tentative agreement, Jeff Vahle, president of Walt Disney World Resort, said in the statement.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/disney-world-reaches-deal-with-union-on-minimum-18-hourly-wage.html
grumpyduck
(6,232 posts)The Mouse has gone woke!!!!!
PSPS
(13,591 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,585 posts)PSPS
(13,591 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,585 posts)Avg. wage in Orlando is $24.41/hr, that includes all income levels, not just lower middle class.
My hunch is the zip recruiter number is the average for jobs listed on their site
PSPS
(13,591 posts)EX500rider
(10,839 posts)Starting pay can still be $11 and up at lower tier jobs.
Freethinker65
(10,009 posts)I bet someone proposes it.
They will argue the higher wages will put other business owners, that continue to exploit their service/hospitality workers, out of business.
madville
(7,408 posts)At my job in Florida, they just recently raised it to $21.50 to get some people in the door, after the first 6 probationary months it goes to $24, then at the one year mark to $30.26. Its tough finding folks with a good drivers license and clean criminal background who can pass a drug test.
obamanut2012
(26,068 posts)Hekate
(90,645 posts)Warpy
(111,245 posts)thanks in part to the Air BnB explosion and partly to naked greed in a "hot" market.
I did see one for $990/month, 300 square feet of it and involving a long commute to WDW.
Disney's grand vision should have included employee housing. It didn't. He and his successors didn't give a shit. I suppose they thought the whole thing would be automated by now.
Zeitghost
(3,858 posts)Included an entire city for people to live in. It's what EPCOT eventually devolved into after his death.