LGBTQ supporters and Disney employees are calling for a walkout in protest of management's slow response in publicly criticizing Florida's “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Some politicians are accusing the entertainment conglomerate of being “woke.'
Evan Power, chairman of the Leon County Republican Party, said he believes a strident minority of Disney employees are pushing the issue and DeSantis has more to gain by taking the side of parents who want more control over education and “sexual conversations” in early grades at school. DeSantis is viewed as a likely Republican presidential candidate in 2024.
Officials for the unions that represent tens of thousands of workers at Disney theme parks in Florida and Anaheim, California — including the hundreds of costumed performers who portray Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and Stitch at Walt Disney World — said there didn’t appear to be any momentum for a walkout.represents costumed characters, bus drivers and other Disney workers, said Monday. “That’s just not the way we are going to go about this.”prohibits work stoppages or disruptions.
Part of the goal of the walkout is for those workers with the “privilege” to be able to protest to stand up for those who can’t, the New York employee said. Disney, whose movies and properties shaped generations of children around the world, has spoken out several times in recent years about contentious social and political situations.
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