Character and parade performers at Disneyland in California are officially unionized.
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Mickey Mouse, Tigger, and Mulan now have a union to help them win a workplace happily ever after.
Disneyland performers who help bring Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and other beloved characters to life at the Southern California resort chose to unionize following a three-day vote culminating on Saturday.
Turns out, Disneyland is not the happiest place on earth.
You can add Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy to the growing list of workers seeking better employment benefits.
Disneyland Resort employees who portray costumed characters such as Mickey Mouse or Cinderella have voted to unionize under the Actors’ Equity Assn.
The vote determined whether 1,700 workers who play characters such as Mickey and Minnie Mouse and who dance at parades could join the union representing other workers at the park in Anaheim, Calif.
The claims surfaced in a video by More Perfect Union as part of a unionization push.
Performers share concerns over benefits, health and safety as they work to form a union.
Most of the amusement park's other workers have already unionized.
