Workers at Disneyland are primed for a big bump in salary after a winning a living-wage legal battle, a paycheck boost scheduled to start this week.
Marlene Hackett works most days in Disneyland at food stands in Critter Country, where she rolls the theme park’s famed churros in brown sugar and shovels buttery popcorn into buckets before handing them out to eager parkgoers. But with an hourly wage of $21.25 after 13 years as a Disney 'cast member,' Hackett, 53, struggles to keep her own cupboards full.
In an effort to sidestep the ordinance, Disney negotiated a new pay scale that raised the minimum salary to $15 an hour for employees covered by the Master Services Council, an alliance of four unions that together represent 9,500 workers, about a third of Disney's unionized workforce. In ensuing months, other unions, including Workers United Local 50, negotiated similar deals.
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