Comments on: Disney workers fast for health care http://wagingnonviolence.org/2010/02/disney-workers-fast-for-health-care/ People-Powered News and Analysis Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:33:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andre Alliman http://wagingnonviolence.org/2010/02/disney-workers-fast-for-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-2700 Andre Alliman Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:59:25 +0000 http://wagingnonviolence.org/?p=3679#comment-2700 I've quite taken pleasure in browsing all the posts here on Disney workers fast for health care / Waging Nonviolence. Highly enlightening plus very easy to understand. Thanks Andre Alliman I’ve quite taken pleasure in browsing all the posts here on Disney workers fast for health care / Waging Nonviolence. Highly enlightening plus very easy to understand.

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]]> By: Nathan Schneider http://wagingnonviolence.org/2010/02/disney-workers-fast-for-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-2589 Nathan Schneider Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:35:53 +0000 http://wagingnonviolence.org/?p=3679#comment-2589 I find this story particularly interesting in light of the spate of TV ads that we've been seeing about Disney's <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/WhatWillYouCelebrate/index?name=Give-A-Day-Get-A-Disney-Day" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Give a Day</a> program, which is supposed to make them look like champions of grassroots volunteerism. But, in light of your post, it seems more that they're interested in having as many people as possible work for free, employees and otherwise, while they rake in the cash and credit. All that said, this pattern of employees losing health benefits is to be expected, and it is the result of a fundamentally flawed system that links such benefits to employment, which puts too much in the hands of private employers and leaves too many—the unemployed, the self-employed, small businesses, among them—in the lurch. Basic health is too important and too essential to depend on the good graces of one's employer. Workers need to be free to change jobs, when necessary, without fear that their children won't be able to go to the doctor. I find this story particularly interesting in light of the spate of TV ads that we’ve been seeing about Disney’s Give a Day program, which is supposed to make them look like champions of grassroots volunteerism. But, in light of your post, it seems more that they’re interested in having as many people as possible work for free, employees and otherwise, while they rake in the cash and credit.

All that said, this pattern of employees losing health benefits is to be expected, and it is the result of a fundamentally flawed system that links such benefits to employment, which puts too much in the hands of private employers and leaves too many—the unemployed, the self-employed, small businesses, among them—in the lurch. Basic health is too important and too essential to depend on the good graces of one’s employer. Workers need to be free to change jobs, when necessary, without fear that their children won’t be able to go to the doctor.

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