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demmiblue

(36,865 posts) Fri Jul 27, 2018, 12:03 PM Jul 2018

Disneyland agrees to pay its workers $15 an hour

Source: WXYZ Detroit

Disneyland workers in California are getting a pay raise.

Unions representing nearly 10,000 Disneyland workers accepted Disney's three-year contract to raise starting hourly wages to $15 an hour beginning next year. The agreement ends a lengthy labor battle over pay at Disney's Anaheim resort.

Minimum wage employees at Disneyland made $11 an hour. The deal immediately raises their pay 20% to $13.25 an hour. The $15 starting rate will go into effect on January 1, 2019. It will go up to $15.45 in June of 2020.

Disney said an employee making $11 today would earn an additional $8,000 a year.

Read more: https://www.wxyz.com/news/national/disneyland-agrees-to-pay-its-workers-15-an-hour

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Disneyland agrees to pay its workers $15 an hour (Original Post) demmiblue Jul 2018 OP

Finally!! Bout time... but why not go into affect immediately?! InAbLuEsTaTe Jul 2018 #1

It's nice to know that you can still embarrass people into doing the right things. nycbos Jul 2018 #2

Disney parks revenue last year was $18.4 Billion OnlinePoker Jul 2018 #3

There is no way in hell that people can afford to live anywhere near there with that salary BumRushDaShow Jul 2018 #4

You get to know a lot of people. Dave Starsky Jul 2018 #5

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)

1. Finally!! Bout time... but why not go into affect immediately?!

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Fri Jul 27, 2018, 12:13 PM

Jul 2018

nycbos

(6,034 posts)

2. It's nice to know that you can still embarrass people into doing the right things.

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Fri Jul 27, 2018, 12:14 PM

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OnlinePoker

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3. Disney parks revenue last year was $18.4 Billion

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Fri Jul 27, 2018, 12:22 PM

Jul 2018

Profit for all of Disney (media, parks, etc) after taxes was $9.366 Billion. If each employee earns an additional $8k per year, that's only $80 million yearly, less than 1% of the total profit. They can afford it.