Disney provide regular Covid-19 testing for its members when the park reopens, as the nature of their performance jobs is not conducive to social distancing and wearing personal protective equipment.to employee unions in California that the high rates of false negatives could provide “a false sense of security” and the company would instead implement measures like physical distancing, mask wearing and increased sanitation.
Though Disney’s Equity employees were initially called back to work on June 23, according to the union, Disney rescinded its call for performers to return on June 26—one day after the union pushed for regular testing—and will now move forward with their reopening without the unionized performers. “Rather than agree to testing of performers, Disney has decided to retaliate against workers fighting for a safe workplace during this pandemic,” Actors’ Equity executive director Mary McColl said in a statement, noting that Florida has seen more than 140,000 new cases of Covid-19 since the union initially demanded regular testing.
In a statement to Forbes, a Disney spokesperson said Actors’ Equity has “rejected our safety protocols and have not made themselves available to continue negotiations,” and that the company is “exercising our right to open without Equity performers.”“There’s lot of people who can do their work when they’re wearing a mask and gloves.
before the grievance was filed, saying regular Covid-19 testing is “just very important to our membership, who otherwise is overwhelmingly eager to get back to work.”The combined number of coronavirus cases in Florida’s Orange and Osceola counties, where Walt Disney World is located, as of July 9, according to the
A mandatory medical procedure. Makes you wonder what other medical procedures they can make mandatory. What if the greater good dictates mandatory AIDS testing? 🤔
This should be done to protect customers.
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Disney is a den of pedophiles. Wait until the sh*t hits the fan, Disney is gone!
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