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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(5,702 posts)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.
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