Disney Workers Step Up Pressure on Lucrative Theme-Park Division
- Workers press for raises as resort earnings soar to record
- Company is spending billions on projects in U.S., abroad
Disney Co.'s Disneyland amusement park in Anaheim, California.
Photographer: George Frey/Bloomberg
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Walt Disney Co. is finding itself in heated talks with union workers over pay and other issues as profits at the company’s theme-park division soar.
Employees have picketed outside Walt Disney World and complained in writing about being shut out of Disneyland for the annual holiday party. Last week, unions representing park workers in Florida and California filed complaints with the National Labor Relations Board over Disney’s decision to withhold a special $1,000 tax-reform bonus while contracts talks are underway, saying the company discriminated against those staffers.