Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Mickey Mouse, kickin’ ass for the working class? Employees who work in Disneyland’s Characters and Parades departments announced they are unionizing with Actors’ Equity Association.
Actors’ Equity represents some 51,000 professional actors and stage managers on Broadway and in live theatre across the U.S. — including performers at Walt Disney World in Florida.
Calling themselves “Magic United,” the Disneyland union organizers have begun circulating union authorization cards to 1,700 “Cast Members” who work at the Anaheim, Calif., park and will seek voluntary recognition from Disney Resort Entertainment if and when a majority of the workers have signed.
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.
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