The CR contract has been approved by a 96% margin. The new agreement goes into affect immediately.
Please contact your Union Rep or Shop Steward for more information.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
CR Contract Vote
DATE: Friday, May 20, 2011
TIME: 7 AM – 7 PM
PLACE: Contemporary Resort, Convention Center, Fantasia J-Q
• ONLY UNION MEMBERS MAY VOTE.
• All six STCU affiliates will be voting at the same location.
This contract continues to provide improvements at work for CRs. Some of the contract improvements are:
- Bonus payment ranging from $50 - $275 based on hours worked from October 3, 2010 through April 3, 2011 (MUST have been a CR as of 10/3/10)
- Holiday premium pay for working on Labor Day and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday (After two (2) years of service). CRs now have 7 holidays like the FT workers.
- Improved rights on the job won in the Full Time contract and Local 362 Side Letter apply to CRs (overtime, scheduling, Attractions, Custodial and Vacation Planner policies and premiums, grievance procedure, etc.)
Complete details on the contract proposal will be presented at the ratification.
TIME: 7 AM – 7 PM
PLACE: Contemporary Resort, Convention Center, Fantasia J-Q
• ONLY UNION MEMBERS MAY VOTE.
• All six STCU affiliates will be voting at the same location.
This contract continues to provide improvements at work for CRs. Some of the contract improvements are:
- Bonus payment ranging from $50 - $275 based on hours worked from October 3, 2010 through April 3, 2011 (MUST have been a CR as of 10/3/10)
- Holiday premium pay for working on Labor Day and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday (After two (2) years of service). CRs now have 7 holidays like the FT workers.
- Improved rights on the job won in the Full Time contract and Local 362 Side Letter apply to CRs (overtime, scheduling, Attractions, Custodial and Vacation Planner policies and premiums, grievance procedure, etc.)
Complete details on the contract proposal will be presented at the ratification.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Agreement reached on CR Contract
The Service Trades Council Union and Disney Management have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract covering the almost 10,000 CR Cast Members at Walt Disney World. The parties met from April 19-21, 2011, to negotiate the new agreement. In addition to the wage increases that all CR workers received on April 3, 2011 as a result of the Full-Time negotiations, additional improvements in work rules and other economics were achieved. The entire STCU Bargaining Committee is recommending a “Yes” vote on the offer. Below is a summary:
Non-economic
• Agreed to all “Clean-Up” and “Pass-Through” language as a result of the FT contract (i.e. Jury Duty service being used for computation of Overtime, right to wear Union pins backstage, Language assistance during investigations, Coordinators, etc.).
• New language in a Letter of Understanding regarding priority for scheduling CR employees before CT or other non-bargaining unit employees (excluding CPs).
• New language in a Letter of Understanding preventing forced expansion of availability for CR employees with only 2 days of availability.
• Incorporating the Trainer language into the contract.
• Protected existing language on transfers and utilization.
Economic
• Lump Sum increase
For non-tipped CR employees who were statused as of 10/2/10 and are still employed:
Bonus of 2% on actual hours worked from 10/2/10 through 4/2/11 with a minimum of $50 and a maximum of $275.
$50 lump sum bonus for CR tipped employees who were statused as of 10/2/10 and are still employed.
• Holiday premium for hours worked
Add additional holidays for CR employees with at least 2 years of continuous service, who work on the following holidays will be paid at the time and one-half (1 ½) for all hours worked:
Martin Luther King Jr. (effective January 2012)
Labor Day
• Protected the Pension Plan
A vote of the STCU CR membership will be held in the near future. Details will be posted in your work area and at our website once available. The STCU is recommending a “YES” vote on the offer.
Non-economic
• Agreed to all “Clean-Up” and “Pass-Through” language as a result of the FT contract (i.e. Jury Duty service being used for computation of Overtime, right to wear Union pins backstage, Language assistance during investigations, Coordinators, etc.).
• New language in a Letter of Understanding regarding priority for scheduling CR employees before CT or other non-bargaining unit employees (excluding CPs).
• New language in a Letter of Understanding preventing forced expansion of availability for CR employees with only 2 days of availability.
• Incorporating the Trainer language into the contract.
• Protected existing language on transfers and utilization.
Economic
• Lump Sum increase
For non-tipped CR employees who were statused as of 10/2/10 and are still employed:
Bonus of 2% on actual hours worked from 10/2/10 through 4/2/11 with a minimum of $50 and a maximum of $275.
$50 lump sum bonus for CR tipped employees who were statused as of 10/2/10 and are still employed.
• Holiday premium for hours worked
Add additional holidays for CR employees with at least 2 years of continuous service, who work on the following holidays will be paid at the time and one-half (1 ½) for all hours worked:
Martin Luther King Jr. (effective January 2012)
Labor Day
• Protected the Pension Plan
A vote of the STCU CR membership will be held in the near future. Details will be posted in your work area and at our website once available. The STCU is recommending a “YES” vote on the offer.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
CR Bargaining Update
Negotiations for the Casual-Regular contract between Walt Disney World and the Service Trades Council have been scheduled for:
Tuesday, April 19
Wednesday, April 20
Thursday, April 21
Bargaining sessions are scheduled to begin each day at 10am and go until 5pm at the Textile Services building near the service entrance of the Port Orleans Resort. Check the bargaining hot line, (407) 851-0626, extension 29, for updates. All members are welcome to attend.
Tuesday, April 19
Wednesday, April 20
Thursday, April 21
Bargaining sessions are scheduled to begin each day at 10am and go until 5pm at the Textile Services building near the service entrance of the Port Orleans Resort. Check the bargaining hot line, (407) 851-0626, extension 29, for updates. All members are welcome to attend.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
CR Contract Survey
With the Full-Time Contract being resolved, the Union turns its attention to negotiating the CR agreement. Click on the link to be directed to the CR contract survey:
http://www.uniteherelocal362.org/CR%20Survey%202011.pdf
Turn this into your Shop Steward, Union Representative or to the Union Hall as soon as possible.
http://www.uniteherelocal362.org/CR%20Survey%202011.pdf
Turn this into your Shop Steward, Union Representative or to the Union Hall as soon as possible.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Contract Approved by STCU - Rejected by Local 362 and UFCW
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/the-daily-disney/os-disney-union-vote-20110225,0,4929098.story
Disney workers vote to approve new union contract
By Jeff Weiner and Jason Garcia, Orlando Sentinel
10:15 p.m. EST, February 25, 2011
Members of Walt Disney World's largest union group today voted by a large majority to approve a new labor contract, after months of at-times cantankerous negotiations.
However, leadership of two of the six unions that make up the Services Trades Council decried the vote — a sign that, while the negotiations are over, at least some of the discontent may remain.
Harris Raynor, president of the Services Trades Council, confirmed that the vote passed 4,987-2,099, in what he called "a victory for the workers who are represented by the unions."
The vote was the second for members of the Service Trades Council, a coalition of six unions that together represent roughly 20,800 full-time Disney employees.
Unite Here! Local 362 president Eric Clinton and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1625 president Ed Chambers also confirmed the results.
"We are pleased with the outcome of the vote today," Steve Eisenhardt, vice president of labor relations for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, said in a statement. "Both the voter turnout and the support of the new contract were tremendous."
The contract is similar to one rejected in October by 3,880-3,350 vote. It calls for $650 in combined bonuses for all full-time, non-tipped employees and, for workers not already at the top of their pay scales, annual raises of between 3 percent and 4 percent over the next three years.
The most significant difference in the new contract: Full-time, non-tipped workers earning $8.50 an hour or less would get an extra $100 bonus.
The leadership of four of the six unions that comprise the Services Trades Council have endorsed the contract offer. But two — Unite Here! Local 362 and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1625 — have urged workers to vote against it, arguing that the raises are not equitably distributed among job classifications and they are not large enough to offset rising health-insurance premiums for employees with family coverage.
Chambers, whose union voted about 82 percent to oppose the proposal, said that he was disappointed in the results of the vote.
"Disney was able to divide and conquer the unions," Chambers said. He and Clinton, who also opposed the proposal, accused the other unions of using the possibility of a strike to intimidate workers into voting in favor of the new contract.
"People forgot from the other unions that Disney is the one we should be taking on, not each other," Clinton said.
Raynor, however, pointed to the turnout and size of the majority as evidence that the union's membership had spoken.
"We feel very strongly that this was an extremely democratic vote," Raynor said.
jeweiner@tribune.com or 407-420-5171. jrgarcia@tribune or 407-420-5414
Disney workers vote to approve new union contract
By Jeff Weiner and Jason Garcia, Orlando Sentinel
10:15 p.m. EST, February 25, 2011
Members of Walt Disney World's largest union group today voted by a large majority to approve a new labor contract, after months of at-times cantankerous negotiations.
However, leadership of two of the six unions that make up the Services Trades Council decried the vote — a sign that, while the negotiations are over, at least some of the discontent may remain.
Harris Raynor, president of the Services Trades Council, confirmed that the vote passed 4,987-2,099, in what he called "a victory for the workers who are represented by the unions."
The vote was the second for members of the Service Trades Council, a coalition of six unions that together represent roughly 20,800 full-time Disney employees.
Unite Here! Local 362 president Eric Clinton and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1625 president Ed Chambers also confirmed the results.
"We are pleased with the outcome of the vote today," Steve Eisenhardt, vice president of labor relations for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, said in a statement. "Both the voter turnout and the support of the new contract were tremendous."
The contract is similar to one rejected in October by 3,880-3,350 vote. It calls for $650 in combined bonuses for all full-time, non-tipped employees and, for workers not already at the top of their pay scales, annual raises of between 3 percent and 4 percent over the next three years.
The most significant difference in the new contract: Full-time, non-tipped workers earning $8.50 an hour or less would get an extra $100 bonus.
The leadership of four of the six unions that comprise the Services Trades Council have endorsed the contract offer. But two — Unite Here! Local 362 and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1625 — have urged workers to vote against it, arguing that the raises are not equitably distributed among job classifications and they are not large enough to offset rising health-insurance premiums for employees with family coverage.
Chambers, whose union voted about 82 percent to oppose the proposal, said that he was disappointed in the results of the vote.
"Disney was able to divide and conquer the unions," Chambers said. He and Clinton, who also opposed the proposal, accused the other unions of using the possibility of a strike to intimidate workers into voting in favor of the new contract.
"People forgot from the other unions that Disney is the one we should be taking on, not each other," Clinton said.
Raynor, however, pointed to the turnout and size of the majority as evidence that the union's membership had spoken.
"We feel very strongly that this was an extremely democratic vote," Raynor said.
jeweiner@tribune.com or 407-420-5171. jrgarcia@tribune or 407-420-5414
Friday, February 18, 2011
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