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Disneyland Workers Seeking to Form Union for 1,700 Character Performers With Actors’ Equity
Employees who work in Disneyland’s Characters and Parades departments announced they are unionizing with Actors’ Equity Association.
If the company declines to recognize the union, Actors’ Equity will then file the cards with the National Labor Relations Board; upon receiving the petition, the NLRB will schedule a union-recognition election for cast members in the Disneyland Character and Parades departments. “Disneyland is a very special place, where Cast Members create magic that attracts millions of guests every year,” Actors’ Equity Association president Kate Shindle said in a statement. In the past two years, Equity’s organizing campaigns have resulted in union recognition for planetarium lecturers and strippers in Los Angeles and at Drunk Shakespeare companies across the U.S.
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