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Cast members at Disneyland in California have sought to organize with the United States' primary stage actors union. Some 1,700 characters and parades workers are receiving unionization cards from ...
On December 24, 1998, a heavy metal cleat fastened to the hull of the Sailing Ship Columbia tore loose, striking one 30-year-old cast member and two park guests. One of the guests, a 33-year-old man, died of a head injury at UCI Medical Center two days later.
Newly hired Cast Members are escorted to the lower level into the new-hire processing, where their work documents are processed. New hires are then escorted to a final briefing room where they receive the official company handbook and additional documents. Finally, first-time Cast Members are scheduled for their first day of training at Disney ...
The credit union was formed in 1968 at the request of a group of Disneyland Park cast members, and when first chartered was called the DRC Federal Credit Union. DRC was an acronym for the Disneyland Recreational Club, which was a precursor to the Disneyland Resort's current Cast Activities department. The offices moved a number of times before ...
Unionization at Disneyland may no longer be a fairytale, as a majority of approximately 1,700 parades and characters cast members have filed with the NLRB for union representation.
“The cast members who bring the characters and parades to life have been non-union since Disneyland Resort opened in the 1950s and have watched other workers in the park unionize all around them ...
The carolers and choirs were a hit with guests. Hirt suggested to Disney that a candlelight procession and ceremony would play well in the park. Disney agreed, and the first Candlelight Procession took place in 1958. The choirs moved north from Main Street to the Hub and performed facing Hirt, who was conducting in the center of the massed ...
After three days of voting last week, 1,700 Disneyland Resort cast members who play characters around the theme park in Anaheim, California, as well as perform at parades, voted to unionize under ...