Bernie Sanders Proposes Solution To Problem Of Under-Paid Disney Employees
Abigail Disney has caused quite a store this week with her statements of Disney unfairly compensating its employees. She has caused ripples across Hollywood by calling out Disney CEO Bob Iger, who reported $65.6 million 2018 payday, and has called for the company to set aside part of the company’s executive bonus pool to give to the employees who are paid the least.
Jumping on the Disney bandwagon this week is presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who tweeted about Disney’s box-office haul from “Avengers: Endgame” – which has amassed $1.2 billion and counting. Sanders is calling on the studio to use some of that money to even out the salaries of its employees.
“What would be truly heroic is if Disney used its profits from Avengers to pay all of its workers a middle-class wage, instead of paying its CEO Bob Iger $65.6 million—over 1,400 times as much as the average worker at Disney makes,” Sanders wrote on April 29.
Sander referenced the data Abigail Disney used in her op-ed piece, in which she claimed that Iger’s salary is 1,424 times the median pay of a Disney worker.
Sanders reposted the published article on his official Facebook page, captioning his post with “Abigail Disney is right. It is absurd that CEOs are making over 1,000 times as much as their workers, while workers live paycheck to paycheck and struggle to afford basic needs. Corporate executives should devote resources to workers and communities before buying back stock and giving themselves huge compensation packages. We have to raise the minimum wage in this country to a living wage of $15 an hour and stop this unfettered greed.”
By: Maytinee Kramer
