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Disney Inadvertently Exposes Trump's Tax Cut for the Scam It's Been from the Start
When Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, he touted the legislation as a financial boon for American labor. As recently as January, Trump pointed to $1,000 bonuses for employees that American Airlines, AT&T, and Disney have announced as proof corporations would reinvest the billions of dollars they stand to save in their respective workforces. But if the president has offered a vision of how tax cuts for multinational corporations might operate in theory, an unfair labor practice complaint filed Tuesday reveals how they work in practice.
According to the Orange County Register, Unite Here Local 11, a union representing 2,700 housekeepers and other low-wage workers, has accused the Walt Disney Co. of effectively holding its bonuses hostage to secure a more favorable bargaining agreement. Disney is refusing to release the one-time payments "notwithstanding the union's lack of objection", the statement reads. "[The company] has violated its duty to bargain in good faith, and has engaged in conduct that is inherently destructive to rights guaranteed employees under the [National Labor Relations] Act." (For Disney's part, a spokeswoman maintains the company has a "strong offer on the table".)
[...] Regulatory findings released last month indicate [CEO Bob] Iger earned $36.3 million in compensation for 2017, which is $7.6 million less than he made the year before. The average union member at Disney World is paid $10.71 an hour, while just 3,000 employees earn in excess of $15. Disneyland staffers make a fraction more, the beneficiaries of California's decision last month to raise its minimum wage from $10.50 to $11 an hour. Unite Here's latest filing follows a separate complaint by a coalition of unions representing 38,000 Disney World workers in Florida.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday February 23 2018, @07:47PM (3 children)
Without the bit in bold, it sounds like the union didn't object to them withholding the money.
It's still strangely wooly wording on the union's part (like saying "Hey, you didn't give me a pie even though I never said I didn't want pie!") but at least makes more sense than the edited version.
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(Score: 1, Troll) by frojack on Friday February 23 2018, @08:23PM (2 children)
The wooly wording was Precisely because the Union fully intends to sign the contract, for higher wages 4 years earlier than California Law requires, and doesn't want to screw up the deal.
The claim of unions is you have to bargain for everything you get. They'd like to keep the free bonus that everyone at Disney got off the radar, because it exposes the lie.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by NewNic on Friday February 23 2018, @10:49PM (1 child)
So, let me get this right.
Disney announced bonuses. At the time, they were announced there was no qualification to the payment. No reason to believe that the bonuses would not be paid.
Disney now reneges on the announcement, uses the bonuses as leverage and somehow this is the union's fault?
Wow, you really do think ordinary people should just bend over and take what big companies are doing to them, don't you!
Disney raises its prices by almost 9% and offers its employees a 3% raise. What a generous employer!
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday February 23 2018, @10:56PM
Yes, but if they give their employees a 3% raise, they also have to give THEMSELVES a 3% raise...+the 30bajillion$ bonus for screwing with their employees so successfully!
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