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posted by janrinok on Friday February 23 2018, @06:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the had-our-fingers-crossed dept.

AlterNet reports

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.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Friday February 23 2018, @08:17PM (2 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Friday February 23 2018, @08:17PM (#642604) Journal

    The stuff the original owner didn't want you to see:

    Disney spokeswoman Suzi Brown responded, “Because we are in an open contract with Local 11 and wages and bonuses are terms and conditions of employment, the bonus is part of our negotiation process.”

    As for Disney’s contract offer, she added, “We have a strong offer on the table that includes wage increases averaging 3 percent annually over three years and a $15 hourly rate for certain job classifications, such as housekeeping and specialty culinary.”

    California’s minimum wage, reflecting the state’s high cost of living, is scheduled to rise to $15 an hour by 2022. So Disney is offering this NOW instead of 4 years from now.

    And of course the bonus checks were not a part of the tax cut, Disney is not obligated to give them but every other union employees got them. But somehow it makes the whole tax cut a scam?

    Disney is totally in the pocket of the Democratic Party [opensecrets.org] (or is it the other way around). So why is this Trump's problem?

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday February 24 2018, @12:44AM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday February 24 2018, @12:44AM (#642776) Homepage

    Originalowner had the balls to submit.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @04:48AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @04:48AM (#642882)

      Why would anyone be submitting their balls here?