Performers at Disneyland theme park in Anaheim voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing in an election this week, the National Labor Relations Board announced Sunday. They will be members of the Actors’ Equity Association, the same union that represents performers and stage managers at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
The election at the theme park involved more than 1,700 employees in the character and parade departments. The vote count was 953 in favor of unionizing and 258 against it, according to a board spokesperson.
Actors’ Equity said in a statement that those workers had been an “exception” among the heavily unionized workforce at Disneyland “until now.”
sigh. I literally know people who will take this to heart, who already mostly believe this is how companies should operate, and don't need much more
" proof" like this.
Yes: if you beat your slaves, they will work harder until they die, at which point you can replace them. It's true. You can be successful this way.
It bugs me to no end that we've created an economic model that measures success by exactly one metric: profit. It's such a shitty situation with a disastrous, unsustainable end; it's just taking a long time for it to play out.
This seems a bit disingenuous. I don't like the guy much, but turning a small loan the size of a house into one of the worlds richest companies, while changing how ALL of us shopped online is still an impressive feat.
You could give $300k to everyone in this thread and no one would produce half an Amazon.
Dude sucks and is ruining the planet, but this quote is taken out of context and if you read beyond the headline you'll see that. He's saying that his employees should "wake up every morning terrified" of losing their customers to competitors. That's just like... a dumb capitalistic aphorism that doesn't really mean anything.
How could you say it doesn't mean anything? They don't say these words for no reason at all. He meant that. He wanted you to wake up and be 'terrified like he is." This whole game is how can we get the dial to go past 11? How hard can I push these people to extract the maximum amount of value? Listen to them when they speak, they mean it.
“And so, after the Great Factory Atrocity committed against the workers by the Billionaire Grey Shirt Army, all Grey Shirts were forced to flee to their luxury orbitals. Thus the curse ‘may he launch himself into orbit and never come back’ entered the common vernacular, often accompanied by the ceremonial breaking of an orbital landing beacon, many of which had been found in a large cache of Grey Shirt supplies buried on Oahu.”
From Chronicle of the Times Before the Great Bankruptcy Wars of 2055
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