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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: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Friday February 23 2018, @10:58PM (2 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday February 23 2018, @10:58PM (#642697) Journal

    the rise of unions in America again. Corporations will either get smarter in how they treat their employees or unions will rise again.

    Or revolution.

    Whatevs.

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  • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Friday February 23 2018, @11:15PM

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Friday February 23 2018, @11:15PM (#642714)

    Corporations will either get smarter in how they treat their employees or unions will rise again.
    Or revolution.

    Sadly it seems we never learn but just keep repeating these same cycles over and over. This all comes at a cost to the general health and welfare of both people and the corporations.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @10:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 24 2018, @10:49PM (#643206)

    Up in the (meta)thread, an AC has accused me of using the submission to push Socialism.
    I replied, noting that unions have zero overlap with Socialism.
    Now, here's where I show him to have just a bit of insight.

    Professor of Comparative Economics Richard Wolff recently published an item where he notes that The Pseudo-Left continues to make the same mistakes.
    The Organized Labor movement thinks they have made gains, then, via bought-off politicians, The Ownership Class claws those back|finds workarounds.

    Capitalism Is The Obstacle To Equality and Democracy In USA [counterpunch.org]
    The problem is Capitalism and Capitalists.
    As long as those still exist, the same problems will reappear.
    It should be clear that that system is past its best-by date.
    The solution is a different ownership model.
    The solution is Socialism (Democracy in the Workplace; Democracy Everywhere).

    A change in campaign finance law is also required:
    A constitutional amendment that reverses more than a century of corporate-friendly SCOTUS decisions, culminating in Buckley vs Valeo [wikipedia.org] and Citizens United [wikipedia.org] which came right out and said that it's OK for The Rich to buy politicians.
    The solution is publicly-financed campaigns.

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