[Bruce Wang]

How Disney, with its film contract with the IATSE and its TV contract with labor union NABET, can get away with underscale payment to ESPN crews (mostly one man bands) is beyond me. The Mouse is not all Mary Poppins and Dumbo. Up there with TWI as the worst employers in the business.

A friend of mine used to work at corporate Disney.  One of his first assignments was to put together a financial model of a new theme park.  A colleague handed him an existing model as a template.  My friend looked through it and pointed out that the assumptions on labor costs were unrealistically low.  The veterans response: "You don't understand.  This is Disney.  We only pay our "cast members" because the law requires us to."

I had a personal experience corroborating this.  I once visited the home of a couple that both worked at one of the parks.  Everything in the house that was not nailed down was Disney-themed.

[Bruce Wang]

How Disney, with its film contract with the IATSE and its TV contract with labor union NABET, can get away with underscale payment to ESPN crews (mostly one man bands) is beyond me. The Mouse is not all Mary Poppins and Dumbo. Up there with TWI as the worst employers in the business.

A friend of mine used to work at corporate Disney.  One of his first assignments was to put together a financial model of a new theme park.  A colleague handed him an existing model as a template.  My friend looked through it and pointed out that the assumptions on labor costs were unrealistically low.  The veterans response: "You don't understand.  This is Disney.  We only pay our "cast members" because the law requires us to."

I had a personal experience corroborating this.  I once visited the home of a couple that both worked at one of the parks.  Everything in the house that was not nailed down was Disney-themed.