RE Think: Disney World now Wal*Mart Smart?

This from the Daily Mail website via Fark.com: Employees at Disney World are having to protest in order to try to KEEP health care benefits that Disney wants to take away from them. The employees' contract ran out in February, and the employees of the park and its other establishments on site have been working on in good faith. A recent offer from the Disney Corp was SO off the mark and offensive to the employees they staged a costumed protest for all to see and know of their plight.

Disney's response was to call the cops on the protesters, so a large number of guests and fans had the opportunity to watch their favorite cartoon characters arrested, handcuffed, humiliated, and hauled in.

This because they are fighting for their jobs and quality of life. These folks were not making outrageous demands they seem to have only been fighting for descent health care from one of the richest corporations of the world.

Folks, this is a frighteningly strong trend springing up from a number of the larger corporations. they are intent on reducing their overhead at the expense of the workers' current quality of life. We all know that if the health care for their employees were to cost them more than it does now, they would only double, or triple that expense and pass it right on to the consumer. Forget about generating some sort of additional income to subsidize it, they're union busting on the highest level and figuring that their employees can get by off the state's Medicaid funding. Wal*Mart really set the standard for this, and watch as over the next few years if that decision doesn't come back to bite them on the ass. That is one of many reasons why I don't shop at a Wal*Fart.

Some states have even gone so far as to penalize and bill Wal*Mart for the coverage they've had to take on as their employees file for state aid in order to get by. I'm also sure that some states have played with making laws to force corporations to provide adequate health care to their full time employees, but big corps like Walk*Fart find ways of weaseling out from their restrictions (like not giving their employees more than 28 hours a week- thus avoiding the 32 hour a week health care enforcement.

Believe me when I tell you that I totally believe in a free economy, but there comes a time when large corporations wedge their way into a small town type area and literally begin running it like a dictatorship.

Corporations have no emotions, let alone a sense of decency or ethics anymore. Disney and Wal*Mart should both be ashamed of their treatment of folks trying to earn a living and a descent way of life in service to the parent company. These are only 2 examples of an ever growing problem. How much is enough? All cutting their bottom line like this does is make the CEO's bonus higher as THEIR performance looks better, at the cost of their employees, and the surrounding populace who now have to pay higher taxes in order to afford the strain on Medicare, welfare, and other public programs.

To read the above mentioned article just click on my posting headline above, or cut and paste this address into your browser:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1045159/Cinderella-Snow-White-Mickey-Mouse-arrested-police-clash-staff-Disneyland.html

WAKE-UP and remember Mickey Mouse could be sick at any moment, and we ALL might end up paying for it, but the CEO's are certainly not cutting their bonuses, their health coverage, or their salaries to help the bottom line.