Some workers at Walt Disney World in Florida, members of the Services Trade Council union, are currently negotiating for a new contract that includes a living wage. In this new video (parts 1 and 2 below), workers detail the way they live now — including reliance on church handouts and state assistance, in some cases.
“If you don’t give back, eventually you deplete your source,” says one worker in the video. “Disney’s source is its people.”
Jeremy Gantz is an In These Times contributing editor working at Time magazine.