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California performers are organizing to be represented by a union now, more than four decades after their Florida counterparts did so.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — During three years of working as a parade performer at the Disneyland Resort in Southern California, Zach Elefante always has had a second or third job to help him earn a living. Unlike the experiences of his peers at Disney’s parks in Orlando, Florida, where there is a much smaller talent […]

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During three years of working as a parade performer at the Disneyland Resort in Southern California, Zach Elefante always has had a second or third job to help him earn a living.

Unlike in Florida, many of the character performers in Southern California have multiple other gigs, often in Hollywood movies and TV.

The character performers at Disneyland in California have said they filed a petition for union recognition.

Each phase of Carey’s rise and fall, as recounted in Putting Members First, is worthy of close study by those seeking to follow in his footsteps as a shop-floor…

At multiple points in their account of the meeting, the Teamsters and O’Brien referred to Trump as “President Trump,” implicitly lending credence to Trump’s baseless claim that the 2020 election was “stolen.”

The timing of the strike during the holiday peak season and the strategic significance of the facility creates the potential for a broader struggle to bring DHL and other logistics companies to their knees. But that requires the rank and file organize themselves independently of the union apparatus, taking the initiative out of pro-corporate union officials' hands.