Sanders to Disney: Stop Paying Workers Starvation Wages

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Excerpt:

WASHINGTON, June 27 – Following a meeting with Disneyland workers during which they told stories of going hungry as a result of low pay, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) led a letter cosigned by 22 of his colleagues to Disney CEO Bob Iger urging the company to agree to a fair contract that pays employees a living wage and provides affordable health care benefits and a reliable schedule.

Disney is currently in the middle of contract negotiations with unions representing workers at Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida.

“In the year 2018, no one in America, especially those working for a profitable corporation like Disney, should be homeless, living in their cars or not be able to feed their families,” the members wrote to Disney. “By sitting down with all of your unions and negotiating a fair contract that pays a living wage, provides affordable and accessible health care benefits and a reliable schedule, Disney can show the rest of corporate America that it must value not just the bottom line and its wealthy shareholders, but the workers responsible for making those profits a reality.”

In addition to Sanders, the letter to Iger was signed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Reps. Henry C. Johnson, Jr. (D-Ga.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), Donald Norcoss (D-N.J.), Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Richard M. Nolan (D-Minn.), Mark DeSaulnier (D-Calif.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-Calif.), Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii).

To read the letter, click here...

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-to-disney-stop-paying-workers-starvation-wages