The presidential candidate said $1.2 billion that came in for the film's opening could help guarantee a 'middle class wage' to everyone at Disney, where workers have said they are struggling to make ends meet.
Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at rally in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, April 25, 2019. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow April 30 at 5:19 AM Sen. Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist of Vermont who is mounting his second bid for the White House, lists nearly two-dozen issues on his website that he would like to tackle as president, from fighting for disability rights to empowering tribal nations.
What would be truly heroic is if Disney used its profits from Avengers to pay all of its workers a middle class wage, instead of paying its CEO Bob Iger $65.6 million – over 1,400 times as much as the average worker at Disney makes. https://t.co/NrcFSk4LZcSo, too, it remained a mystery whether the Democratic lawmaker had caught a glimpse of the on-screen action, perhaps finding in a dark cinema a 182-minute respite from the bright lights of the campaign trail.
For some, these eye-popping figures were incongruous with another startling statistic, publicized earlier this month. Her observation about financial excess has become less radical, in part owing to an increasingly vocal left-wing flank of the Democratic Party rolling out new proposals to tax the rich to fund an expansion of social programs, from guaranteed medical care to debt-free college. That early polling places Sanders near the front of the pack of 2020 aspirants is a sign that his ideas are hardly outside the mainstream.
The granddaughter of Roy Disney, who founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio along with his brother Walt Disney in 1923, was not satisfied by that response. She intensified her criticism of the company in a column in The Washington Post, explaining that she felt obligated to speak out about the “naked indecency” of the chief executive’s remuneration.
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