Disney braces for additional walkouts as staff categorical discontent with CEO Bob Chapek

Disney braces for further walkouts as employees express discontent with CEO Bob Chapek

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Disney versus Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is far from over. And Disney is the state’s largest private-sector employer, so this is a battle between giants — one that DeSantis clearly welcomes as he plots a run for president.

At issue: Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, that would ban classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity before fourth grade. Disney CEO Bob Chapek tiptoed around the bill at first, was pilloried by employees, and then publicly criticized the bill after it passed the state’s legislature. Chapek apologized to LGBTQ employees, but his words did little to lower the temperature. Some employees staged brief walkouts last week, ahead of a “full day walkout” slated to take place on Tuesday.
How many will participate? No one knows. “It’s unclear whether it will draw a crowd” among studios employees, CNBC’s Julia Boorstin wrote, “as only a fraction of employees have been coming in to work on the lot.”
But the…

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