When Dems were pushing for a $15 min wage, Disney demonstrated their woke bona fides by adopting that rate even before it was mandatory.
This was the story in California’s Disneyland, back in 2018:
Disneyland will increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour, which the park said would represent one of the highest entry-level pay levels in the country.
The agreement between Disneyland and its largest labor unions comes after a months-long effort from workers to boost their pay. Earlier this year, some of Disneyland’s workers said they struggled with poverty because of their low wages, and researchers found one in 10 Disneyland employees had recently experiencing homelessness. — CBS
This past fall, the Mouse lost an appeal in court, bringing the wages higher still because of a living age ordinance that was passed that year.
On Oct. 25, the justices said they would decline to hear an appeal by the Walt Disney Co. in a long-running class-action lawsuit that alleged Orange County’s largest employer was wrongfully skirting a living-wage ordinance passed by Anaheim voters in 2018. The decision cemented a July appellate court ruling that found the law indeed applied to Disney’s two Anaheim theme parks and resort workforce. — LATimes
Now, still stinging from that loss, and still reeling from quarterly earnings reports that have them bleeding red ink, imagine their horror to hear a hard-left Senate candidate casually tossing out a much different number as the ‘real’ living wage for Californians.
California Senate Candidate Barbara Lee believes in a $50-an-hour minimum wage in the Bay Area. pic.twitter.com/pcnToy2HZp
— George P. Denny (@GeorgePDenny) February 15, 2024
Fifty dollar minimum wage? If you don’t think the activists have already seized on that new number while looking for ways to normalize it, you’ve not been paying attention. Look how quickly $15 went from a wish list to a reality… to hell with any consequences.
Shouldn’t the billion-dollar corp use their California theme park lead the way to the next step? Pandering to the social justice crowd is Disney’s bread and butter, but their bottom line is getting stretched.
Clash readers are smart enough to spot the flaw in the $50 min wage argument, and why 15/hour is a very different level of virtue signaling than $50. Why not make everybody ‘rich’. How about $500 an hour? Why not $5000?
But to the same rabid neo-marxists Disney corporate culture has been stocked with, and whose favor Disney relies on, corporations are little more than an infinitely exploitable revenue streams for whatever the latest cause might be.
For the activist class, failure to pony up in a situation like this marks you as an enemy to be harassed and deatroyed. Think back to the Firefox CEO was, or Chick Fil A was harassed at every turn until they softened some of their social stands just to survive.
Even before ‘cancel culture’ had become part of the language, hard-left activists were hard at work playing this game.
Sharpton and others routinely leveraged their guerrilla activist mob and the court of public opinion to bully companies into compliance. The tactics that propelled Sharpton and others into prominence would be right at home in the script of a Mafia movie. Nice store you’ve got there. Shame if something were to happen to it.
Now that a candidate for Senator has stated as fact this cost of living number, it’s only a matter of time before the same laws that were used to force Disney’s hand in 2023 will be the logic behind calls to raise them again to meet this new standard.
If you thought Disney was having money troubles now, just wait until policies like THAT take effect.
Heck, by that point, maybe even THEY will start voting Republican, just to pump the brakes on crazy.
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