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Cynthia “Cyn” Carranza meticulously scavenged for a shady parking spot in the car she called home.

The overnight custodian at Disneyland has to sleep during the day - a difficulty for anyone, let alone when you're living in your car with two dogs. Ms Carranza says she makes $20.65 an hour (about £15.99) at the park but last summer, she couldn't afford rent in this Southern California city where the average apartment can run more than $2,000 (about £1,550) a month.

Ms Carranza, like others who work at the park, detailed to the BBC the financial hardships that come with working at what’s supposed to be the “Happiest Place on Earth”. About 10,000 union workers at Disneyland - the first of 12 parks created around the globe - are threatening to strike over the wages and what they say are retaliatory anti-union practices.

Hundreds of workers protested outside the park this week, with an array of signs and pins showing Mickey Mouse's gloved fist in defiance. 

“Mickey would want fair pay,” workers chanted outside Disneyland near the park's gates. 

They voted almost unanimously to authorise strike action on Friday, just days before union contract negotiations for workers are set to resume.

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 57 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You don't understand. If they paid her and the rest of the employees what would be a living wage, they would make only $32.4 billion. See? It can't be done.

[–] macaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I ran the numbers and it’s actually $31.46 billion. But you’re not far off.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We really need to eat the greedy. They're human fucking waste.

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I saw something recently about composting them instead. I like that idea.

[–] macaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pushing daises would be so much more useful.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago

I thought you pulled that number out your ass.

Then I did the math. I really am hungry for some rich right about now.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why would their revenue be lower...?

[–] macaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

True, the revenue wouldn’t be lower. But profit would be about a billion dollars lower. We don’t know what else their expenditures are, but salaries are usually the highest cost in a corporation. In this case, raising pay eats into profits by about 2.8%.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OK, but people are talking about revenue numbers, which sounds stupid.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because people don't understand the difference

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That's definitely the impression I'm getting here.