The kingdom isn't so magical for its workers anymore, Abigail Disney says.
So much for the “Happiest Place on Earth.” The heiress to the Disney fortune recently went to one of its theme parks, and says the visit made her “livid.”
“Every single one of these people I talked to were saying, ‘I don’t know how I can maintain this face of joy and warmth when I have to go home and forage for food in other people’s garbage,’” Disney, 59, told Yahoo News host and human rights activist Zainab Salbi in an interview posted Monday. “I was so livid when I came out of there because … my grandfather taught me to revere these people that take your tickets, that pour your soda.” Abigail Disney She added that, “these people are much of the recipe for success …. when my grandfather worked there, he hired people there to have a job for life.”
In April, she said that Iger’s $65 million pay package is “insane” at a Fast Company Impact Council discussion of “human capitalism,” noting his compensation is 1,424 times that of the median Disney employee. She also told CNBC that “Jesus Christ himself isn’t worth 500 times his median worker’s pay.