February 8, 2012

Disneyland parks attendance jumps 20 percent

Attendance at Disneyland Resort parks jumped 20 percent in winter months compared to the same period the previous year. The Walt Disney Co. today released its earnings for the first quarter of 2010, which runs from Oct. 4 to Jan. 2. (UPDATE: We just got additional figures from Disney about Disneyland Resort’s attendance.) Top Disney [...]

Disney hotel cleaners complain of workload

Maria Navarro, photo by Joshua Sudock Disney hotel workers are complaining that new mattresses, extra pillows and updated rooms are causing them to get injured – a claim Disney officials deny. The issue of housekeepers’ workload recently came to the forefront of a two-year contract dispute between Disney and the 2,150-member hotel union, prompting employees [...]

Disney history: Dumbo ride opens

Here’s a look at what happened on this week in history: August 15, 2008: 28 people -some dressed as Disney characters – are arrested in front of the Paradise Pier Hotel as part of a protest representing union workers at the three Disneyland hotels. Aug. 16, 1955: Dumbo Flying Elephants opens in Fantasyland. Conestoga Wagons [...]

800 demonstrators march on Disney over labor dispute

Roughly 800 Disney hotel workers, union organizers, outside demonstrators and members of the Episcopal clergy marched from the Convention Center, shutting down Harbor Boulevard to the Disneyland entrance Tuesday afternoon – another protest rally in the labor dispute between Disney and workers at the three Disneyland hotels that has simmered at a stalemate for a [...]