Are workers at Disney World Orlando underpaid?
Local 362 UNITE HERE and 5 other unions contends that 21,000 employees of Disney World are underpaid due to a two tier pay system in 1998. A study compiled by economics professors at Rollins College and FIU indicate that full-time employees earned about $19.4 million less last year due to this hard tow-tiered Pay system used by Disney.
Currently, the unions and Disney World have plunged into negotiations over a new master labor contract that will hopefully restore the wage scales for full-time employees. Jacquee Polak, a Disney World spokeswoman defended the 1998 contract by saying that the labor contract was a mutual agreement between unions and Disney World.
Polak contends that the two-tier pay scale system has since been abolished in the 2004 contract and that full-time employees are no longer at a disadvantage. UNITE HERE local 362 president Morty Miller implied that the low pay scales makes it difficult for Disney World to attract and retain employees with respect to a 3% local unemployment rate.
Currently, the unions and Disney World have plunged into negotiations over a new master labor contract that will hopefully restore the wage scales for full-time employees. Jacquee Polak, a Disney World spokeswoman defended the 1998 contract by saying that the labor contract was a mutual agreement between unions and Disney World.
Polak contends that the two-tier pay scale system has since been abolished in the 2004 contract and that full-time employees are no longer at a disadvantage. UNITE HERE local 362 president Morty Miller implied that the low pay scales makes it difficult for Disney World to attract and retain employees with respect to a 3% local unemployment rate.
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