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Disgruntled Disney Workers Target Tourists
Gwinnett, Georgia Daily Post ^ | 10-27-04 | Mike Branom

Posted on 10/27/2004 7:56:31 AM PDT by SmithPatterson

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To: SmithPatterson

Disney thugs!!! Good grief!

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21 posted on 10/27/2004 8:28:28 AM PDT by viaveritasvita (If MSM can't or won't get out the real news, we'll have to get it out ourselves. ~ Chuck Colson)
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To: SmithPatterson

The union doesn't support homosexuals?


22 posted on 10/27/2004 8:29:18 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: SmithPatterson

If I understand the concept of a Disney on Ice show correctly, it's a bunch of Disney characters ice-skating, right? Who the hell would pay to see that?


23 posted on 10/27/2004 8:29:31 AM PDT by Xenalyte (And then I says, "Tell me I'm wrong!" and he says, "I can't, baby, 'cause you're NOT!")
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To: SmithPatterson

Well if they scare people away, there will be more room at the parks for me when I go after Thankgiving.


24 posted on 10/27/2004 8:38:16 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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Ummm... Let's see, I am working for a company while negotiating my future. I decide to go harass our customers. That should work, what a brilliant strategy. I should have a great future.
25 posted on 10/27/2004 8:39:43 AM PDT by rodguy911 ( President Reagan---all the rest.)
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To: Post Toasties

When the union wins the consumer pays more.


26 posted on 10/27/2004 8:42:51 AM PDT by lotusblos
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To: lotusblos

If you want America to work less, just say "Union Yes!"


27 posted on 10/27/2004 8:51:18 AM PDT by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: Adder

Same here -- our health insurance goes up every year. I have no sympathy for these whining union thugs. They don't want to pay a penny out of their pocket for anything. Here in Cincinnati, Kroger just went through negotiations with their union. Of course, the union was crying that now, they were going to have to pay for their health insurance! Boo-freakin'-Hoo!! Welcome to the real world, guys! Same with the teachers in Kentucky. They were actually going to have to pay for their health insurance! Sorry, folks, can't squeeze a tear!


28 posted on 10/27/2004 8:51:43 AM PDT by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: SmithPatterson
Lemme see, they're part of the AFL-CIO.

The Service Trades Council Union, representing 22,000 of the theme park’s 53,000 employees,

So they represent less than half the employees.

Earlier this month, union leaders distributed fliers at the opening of a World of Disney store in New York and at a ‘‘Disney on Ice’’ show in Philadelphia.

And the union leader goons started out distributing fliers in - shock! - New York and Philidelphia.

Minnie and Micky better look out, their little fingers may be broken if they don't sign up.

29 posted on 10/27/2004 9:16:44 AM PDT by xJones
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To: from occupied ga
The day following Election Day (assuming I don't have to make a hospital or court appearance caused by union thugs in Philly), I am flying to Florida to visit a friend who has worked for Disney companies for more than 15 years. She tells me that morale is very low now, even among the younger staff (oops, I mean "cast"), and everyone detests Michael Eisner and the others who have trashed the company (though it was already pretty bad before, they have made it even worse).

If they don't like their jobs/wages let them go work someplace else.

The problem isn't quite that simple anymore. During the 90's, Clinton sold off "intangibles" -- like job security -- to provide some illusory short-term "prosperity." The loss of implied long-term benefits and trust in employers is (a) making employment--and therefore, our society--more unstable, and (b) pushing people more toward more forceable means of stability (e.g., union support, confrontational and hostile employment relationships). I think the Long-term, broader implications are being hidden by the short-term distaste for the union stunt.

30 posted on 10/27/2004 9:20:03 AM PDT by Gondring (They can have my Bill of Rights when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!)
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The problem isn't quite that simple anymore. During the 90's, Clinton sold off "intangibles" -- like job security

It's exactly that simple. These people aren't slaves. They aren't indentured servants. They don't have to pay a penalty if they quit. If they don't like it go somewhere else. If they're getting a better deal at Disney than they'd get elsewhere, then this is a pretty good indication that their value in the employment market is overstated already.

Clinton sold off "intangibles" -- like job security -- to provide some illusory short-term "prosperity."

Clintoon (as much as I detest the man) didn't sell anything. Kongress in their frenzy to plunder and squander ever more of the GDP has made even the most productive country on earth less wealthy by looting private industry to pay for political boondoogles. King George II has spent a lot more than Clinton.

31 posted on 10/27/2004 9:43:26 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: SmithPatterson

I hope they didn't take off their costumes. They're not allowed to take off their outfits even if the temperature was over 100 degrees and they were vomiting in them. Per Disney rules they have to leave them on.


32 posted on 10/27/2004 9:48:55 AM PDT by 12 Gauge Mossberg (I Approved This Posting - Paid For By Mossberg, Inc.)
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Union officials oppose the elimination of some overtime provisions

I have to wonder if some of them lost overtime due to the new overtime rules that were recently enacted.

33 posted on 10/27/2004 10:02:09 AM PDT by freeeee ("Owning" property in the US just means you have one less landlord.)
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