Disney Springs worker allegedly fired for prounion activity, speaking up about sexual harassment
Oct 29, 2024
More than two dozen restaurant workers at Disney World in Orlando, plus a Democratic state representative, gathered at a local union hall Tuesday morning to call out a subcontractor at Disney Springs that allegedly fired a young worker of color last week who publicly spoke out about alleged sexual harassment by a supervisor. She’s also become a leader in an ongoing unionization effort with the hospitality union UNITE HERE. After the 2004 merger of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union, UNITE HERE now represents, among its many members, thousands of hotel and service workers employed by the Walt Disney Company.