Unions that represent about 32,000 full-time workers said the vote was overwhelmingly against the proposal, which have raised pay by at least $1 an hour per year.
Category: Amusement and Theme Parks
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Disney World Workers Reject Contract Offer
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Disney’s Splash Mountain Closed. Now Superfans Are Selling the Water.
The New York Times – Travel:Jars and bags of what sellers claim is water from the popular Florida attraction are being offered for sale online. The odd farewell comes as Disney takes steps to erase the ride’s racist back story.
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Disney Revises Pricing Policies at Its Parks
The New York Times – Travel:Ticket prices won’t exactly be less, but the cost of some activities and perks will be adjusted, after complaints about the cost of visits.
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Alberto Zamperla, Amusement Park Impresario, Is Dead at 71
The New York Times – Travel:His family-friendly company revived historic Luna Park in Coney Island and built attractions for Disney and Six Flags.
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Christmas at Dollywood, With Streetmosphere and a Chicken Lady
The New York Times – Music:Dolly Parton’s theme park gets into the holiday spirit in a way that rivals Radio City’s Rockettes — with fewer kicklines but far more fingerpicking.
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After Swift Return, Iger Faces Disney’s Long-Term Challenges
The New York Times – Business:Robert A. Iger had been gone from the company for less than a year, but he returns to a very different Disney.
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Bog Iger’s Return to Disney Shocks a Discontented Kingdom
The New York Times – Business:After Bob Chapek, the departing chief executive, tried to put a sunny spin on a disastrous earnings report this month, senior Disney leaders began talking about resigning.
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Alice Davis, Costume Designer for Disney Rides, Dies at 93
The New York Times – Business:She created the costumes for more than 150 singing, dancing robotic children in It’s a Small World, and for the buccaneers of Pirates of the Caribbean.
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How Drake Rescued the Long-Lost Art Carnival Luna Luna
The New York Times – Music:In 1987, the Austrian artist André Heller debuted an avant-garde amusement park with works by Basquiat, Dalí and Haring. Its disappearance was a winding tale. Its return is even more bizarre.
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Disney+ Adds 12 Million Subscribers, Beating Expectations
The New York Times – Business:The confidence generated by the subscriber growth was offset by widening financial losses for the company’s direct-to-consumer division over all.