Disneyland Cast Member 1984 Strike Memorabilia Lot (2 Pins & More)

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The biggest factor is rarity, if a pin only comes to market once to several times a year and there are often none of that pin available for sale, I consider those rarities, and will price them accordingly, generally at high values as they are near impossible to replace. Description: This lot consists of (2) pins, one unused name badge, and a half-page flyer that were either used by or given to Cast Members during or after the 1984 Disneyland Strike. These are NOT Disney authorized, nor manufactured pins, yet they represent the Cast Members 100% in their effort to secure a better pay and benefits package in 1984. Each piece us duly rare and finding them together almost impossible. The Club 22 pin was a take on Disneyland’s Club 33 and was a post-strike pin made available to participants in rememberance of their efforts. The Mickey thumbing his nose pin was worn by some strike members during the actual strike (this one came to me in a sealed package and was never used). Though 2 of the pieces are never used, they are all 41 years old and do show some wear annd some minor tarnish on the back of the Mickey Thumbing His Nose pin. The following is a 2018 story from the Orange County Register about that strike. Disneyland custodian Al Ramos came back from vacation in September 1984 with no work to return to, save for walking the picket line outside his job. Members of a five-union coalition representing the theme parks custodians, ticket sellers, ride operators, sales clerks and warehouse workers soundly rejected Disneylands final contract offer. Nearly 2,000 cast members, as Disney calls its employees, hit the Magic Kingdom with the largest strike in its history. I was completely positive about being on strike, recalls Ramos, whos currently coming up on 47 years of employment. That first week, workers were determined to show the company that we were serious. Lasting 22 days, the strike proved to be a turning point. Disneyland has expanded in the years since, adding California Adventure, Downtown Disney and high-end hotels to its resort. But as Orange Countys largest employer, it also no longer provides jobs that allow most workers to join OCs middle class. And its not just the rising cost of living in the county that accounts for the change. According to a survey released in February by Occidental College and the Economic Roundtable, nearly half of the resorts workforce is now part-time and wages have declined. Back in 84, Disneyland pointed to its own survey showing workers making more than its theme-park counterparts while attendance declined at the House of the Mouse. The coalition was comprised of Teamsters Local 88, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 324, Bakery and Confectionery Workers Local 66, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union Local 681, and SEIU Local 399. It didnt like Disneylands final two offers but urged ratification anyway. Only, the membership didnt just vote no. But rather hell no! There wasnt a sufficient [strike] plan because the leaders of the union were caught off guard, says David Stilwell, a senior organizer with SEIU Local 399 at the time. All of that had to be constructed at midnight going forward from the strike vote. When time came to walk off the job on Sept. 25, 1984, each union set up its own picket line at strategic points surrounding the park. One-third of the theme parks workforce brought all their cast member geniality and even dubbed themselves The Friendliest Strike On Earth. Barbs traded between scabs crossing the line and strikers accounted for the only outward sign of tension. Outside of court, it reported to local press that hundreds already crossed the line. The unions responded by changing tactics, as striking workers gained morale and more media exposure. It saddens me to stand outside something I love and wave a picket sign, Terry Stacey, a ride operator, told the Register at the time. But Im doing this for future park employees. Im trying to protect their chance to work in a special place. (Courtesy UCFW Local 324). Nearly 2,000 striking workers held a candlelight vigil outside the theme park in an effort to dramatize the companys cutthroat turn away from its founding father, a point proven by Disneyland president Dick Nunis sending ultimatum letters just hours before, warning workers to return to work by midweek or be replaced. It was a threatening letter that made me even angrier, Ramos says. I was bound and determined to stay out. I wasnt going to be threatened or intimidated. The time for peaceful vigils ended. Defying the picket ban on Disneylands property, 120 workers marched right up to the front gates for an hour-long demonstration. Anaheim police arrested six union officials who refused to leave. Later that night, 1,000 workers celebrated when the state Supreme Court temporarily lifted the picket ban on appeal. The very next day, hundreds took to the gates to rip up Nunis letters. But for all the action outside the park, a stealth operation inside proved most efficient. We had operatives go into the park who started pamphleting people on Main Street, Stilwell recalls. You saw fear in managements eyes for the first time. Even though our ranks were shrinking, we were getting more militant. The Mouse booted the leafleters out while thumbing through thousands of job applications that came after the ultimatum passed. The next day, unions readied for a residential picket of Nunis waterfront home in Laguna Beach. The majority of members voted to approve the new contract, ending the strike on Oct. 16, Ramos 31st birthday. The unions didnt get the two-year contract they sought, which included 3 percent to 8 percent raises. While Disneyland won a two-year wage freeze, it conceded to keeping health benefits for part-time and seasonal workersprovided they worked 20 hours over five-day schedules. The park also agreed to limit outsourcing to 10 percent for union work. Mickey before and after the strike (Local Reporter 324). We were happy to go back to work, but the tension that was in the park between the people that crossed the line and those that stayed out was very extreme, Ramos says. Stilwell recalls fistfights, ones that got former strikers fired more often than scabs. The bad blood lingered for well more than five years, but it was far from being the sole aftermath of the strike. Workers ended their paternalistic relationship with management; tokens of worker appreciation quickly disappeared. Over time, scabs were promoted to management positions. We had a lot of cast members quit, Ramos says. They just couldnt take it anymore. Relations only began to thaw between management and workers around the mid-2000s. The only visible signs of labor strife afterward happened at the Disneyland Hotel, then-owned by Wrather Corporation. Landscapers there went out on strike in 85, followed by months of striking on the job by HERE Local 681 workers the following year. Cesar Chavez visited to walk the picket line in support of the latter dispute. All the while, Disneyland kept chipping away, contract after contract, at benefits unions secured for their workers. Coincidentally, the 84 strike began on Michael Eisners first day as CEO of Walt Disney Productions, Disneylands parent company, a tenure that helped transform the corporation into the empire it is today. The parks economic fortunes improved after that, but the percentage of the wealth shared with the workers kept shrinking, Stilwell says. Disneys solution to the strike was to get rid of as many full-time positions as possible. Year of Release: 1984. 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