Disney World and Unions Agree on $18 Minimum Wage.
Walt Disney World has reached a tentative deal with six unions that make up the Service Trades Council Union coalition to raise the starting minimum wage from $15 to $18 an hour by the end of the year. The agreement covers around 45,000 service workers at the Disney theme park resort outside Orlando. The contract proposal comes at a precarious time for Disney World as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the GOP-controlled Florida Legislature recently passed legislation giving the Republican governor the power to appoint the governing board of the district that oversees government services for the 27,000-acre resort.