A majority of Walt Disney World’s largest union coalition approved their contract after months of negotiations.
President of the Services Trades Council, a group of the 6 unions which make up about 20,800 full-time employees has confirmed the results.
Leaders of 2 of the unions in the STC are decrying the contracts, blaming Disney for dividing the unions. They had urged their members to reject the contracts, but a majority made of the other 4 unions voted in favor of the new contract.
One of the opposing union leaders, Unite Here! Local 362 president Eric Clinton, said “People forgot from the other unions that Disney is the one we should be taking on, not each other.”
“We feel very strongly that this was an extremely democratic vote,” Raynor said, pointing to the turnout and size of the majority as evidence that the union’s membership had spoken.
The vote passed 4,987-2,099.
Terms are similar to the contract rejected last October:
It calls for $650 in combined bonuses for all full-time, non-tipped employees and, for workers not already at the top of their pay scales, annual raises of between 3 percent and 4 percent over the next three years.
The biggest difference in the new contract: Full-time, non-tipped workers earning $8.50 an hour or less would get an extra $100 bonus.
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