Last week, the Coalition of Resort Labor Unions (CRLU) sent a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom opposing the phased re-opening of the Disneyland Resort beginning on July 9 with the re-opening of Downtown Disney. The CRLU is comprised of a dozen unions with a combined membership of 17,000 Resort workers, who have been unemployed since mid-March when the Disneyland Resort ...

Readers of George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984 are familiar with the concept of doublethink: “The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them… To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion ...

Yesterday, the Coalition of Resort Labor Unions held a press conference to announce their class action lawsuit against the Disneyland Resort and SodexoMagic (a Disneyland Resort tenant), alleging the company is not complying with Anaheim’s “living wage” ordinance. It received plenty of media coverage – none of which relates much information about the CRLU member unions and their “allies” who ...