Disney CEO Bob Iger to Bernie Sanders...

[liberal N proud]

“To Bernie Sanders: We created 11,000 new jobs at Disneyland in the past decade, and our company has created 18,000 new jobs in the US in the last 5 years. How many jobs have you created? What have you contributed to the US economy?”


So what could Sanders have said to cause such a reaction from Iger? Well, at the Anaheim speech in question, Sanders told his supporters:

“Here in Anaheim and the surrounding areas, Disney pays its workers wages that are so low, that many of them are forced to live in motels because they can’t afford a decent place to live. Meanwhile, Disney made a record-breaking profit of nearly 3-billion dollars last quarter.”

Sanders also went on to speak about Disney’s hiring of foreign workers by saying:

“Now on the other side of the world in Florida, in Disney World, Disney replaced 250 workers with low wage foreign workers who came in on what is called the H-1B Program…Meanwhile, the CEO of Disney made 46-and-a-half million dollars in total compensation last year. And that’s what we’re talking about, that is what we’re talking about in a rigged economy.”

http://www.liberalamerica.org/2016/05/27/disney-ceo-goes-bernie-sanders-private-facebook-post/

[dflprincess]

1. Igers faux outrage is a bit disingenuous

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/lawsuit-claims-disney-colluded-to-replace-us-workers-with-immigrants.html?_r=0

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Even after Leo Perrero was laid off a year ago from his technology job at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. — and spent his final months there training a temporary immigrant from India to do his work — he still hoped to find a new position in the vast entertainment company.

But Mr. Perrero discovered that despite his high performance ratings, he and most of the other 250 tech workers Disney dismissed would not be rehired for at least a year, and probably never.

Now he and Dena Moore, another American laid off by Disney at that time, have filed lawsuits in federal court in Tampa, Fla., against Disney and two global consulting companies, HCL and Cognizant, which brought in foreign workers who replaced them. They claim the companies colluded to break the law by using temporary H-1B visas to bring in immigrant workers, knowing that Americans would be displaced....

[still_one]

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[spooky3]

4. I'm a Hillary supporter but I share Sanders' view on this topic.

I think HRC's views are pretty similar as well.

[still_one]

5. and that is fine, YOU are a Hillary supporter. Looking at the posters profile does not appear to be

a Hillary supporter, thus I asked the poster a simple question.

The statement of purpose of the Hillary group is for those who support Hillary.

As to your point regarding H1-Bs, that is why it is imperative to have a Democratic Congress.

If the person was replaced by an H1b, he has a case.

It is know that H1bs makes less than American workers doing the same job. That is wrong, and technically illegal

[dflprincess]

6. Him?

I could understand your point had I taken a swipe at Hillary but I was only pointing out the hypocrisy of this guy claiming he's creating jobs for Americans when he's doing the opposite. Just because he doesn't like Bernie doesn't mean he supports Hillary.

[still_one]

7. First point, my use of him/her was unconscious, but I will change it to gender neutral

I Agree, your post had nothing to do with Clinton, and was arguing the H1b issues, which most of us are sympathetic with, because U.S. workers are being replaced by lower paying H1b workers, and that actually is illegal

My point wasn't about that, it was that the Hillary Group is for supporters of Clinton. I had a discussion about this around 6 months ago with a Sanders supporter, who confronted me on this because I was posting in the Sanders Group. The point of view was that I had no business posting in the Sanders group, because I wasn't a Sanders supporter. Incidentally, my post was not rude, and was candidate neutral. I simply posted that whoever was the Democratic nominee, they would have major issues unless we had a Democratic Congress, but that isn't the point. I started thinking about what the poster said, that a special group is for posters who agree with the terms of service for that group.

The most honest answer I can give you is that I am tired of the 80% of the anti-Hillary threads that are outside of the Hillary group, and it has generated negative feelings in me

[dflprincess]

8. If it helps I would not have a had a problem with the post you made in the Sanders

Group. As long as we stick to issues and respect each others candidates and their safe havens it shouldn't be a problem. I'll admit I haven't checked the either groups' TOS but I promise I would not have made any comment in this group had my intent been to take a swipe at her.

PS "her" would be the pronoun for me. I know it's not always easy to be sure.

[still_one]

9. I'll be happy when this primary season is over. My logical mind knows that most of us here

on DU, no matter who we support are good people.

I will delete my post, which questioned your credentials

Take care

[Fresh_Start]

2. I'm so embarrassed I agree with a Ted Cruz proposal

make the minimum wage for H1B employees $110K per annum.
That ought to make companies less likely to outsource.