🐦 June 2 at 10 AM - Bernie Sanders will meet Disney workers in Anaheim, ahead of ballot measure ... [View all]
May 18, 2018 at 6:43 pm
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, a vocal critic of the Walt Disney Co. since his 2016 presidential campaign, is coming to Anaheim to meet with workers from businesses in and around the Disneyland Resort.
Sanders will be in town Saturday, June 2, for a roundtable-type event where he’ll talk with a selection of people from a variety of industries that serve the theme park, nearby hotels and other related businesses, said Andrew Cohen, a spokesman for Unite Here Local 11. The event at River Church is open to the public.
Unite Here is one of 11 unions in a coalition that is backing an initiative that would raise wages for workers at hospitality businesses – including Disney – that have received subsidies from Anaheim. The ballot measure seeks to raise wages at affected businesses to at least $15 an hour in 2019 and to $18 an hour by 2022.
“I think Sen. Sanders is like a leading voice on American inequality and has been championing the rights of workers in a way that sadly not a lot of politicians do right now,” Cohen said. The event will call attention to the unions’ ballot effort, he said, but it’s also a big deal because “Bernie’s a rock star, and people in the labor movement, we love this guy.”
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/18/bernie-sanders-will-meet-disney-workers-in-anaheim-on-june-2-ahead-of-proposed-ballot-measure-to-raise-wages/
When: Doors open at 9 a.m., and Sen. Bernie Sanders is expected to appear at 10 a.m.
Where: River Church, 201 E. Broadway, Anaheim
Details: The event is free and open to the public.
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