Peter Pan and Minnie Mouse arrested for supporting better benefits

Here's a story you won't see on ABC (because Already Been Chewed is owned by Disney).

Yesterday, Disneyland workers who were in costume as Peter Pan, Snow White, and other characters were cuffed and stuffed by police during a labor rally.

There's several stories here: One is the Walt Disney Company's shabby treatment of hotel workers. Another is the outright suppression of the protest by authorities, which violates the First Amendment.

Since BushAmerica is a model of corporatism, Big Business dictates how authorities respond to dissent from their order. Thus the arrests. When corporatism guides the law, no dissent is allowed.

The dispute surrounds a labor contract involving dishwashers, maids, and other hotel workers at the resort. After the contract expired, Disney offered proposals that would make health care unaffordable to many employees and create a category of workers who'd receive vastly reduced benefits.

The union had agreed in earlier contracts to a lower wage for the first 3 years of employment in exchange for a free medical plan. But now Disney is trying to get rid of the medical plan. And the new category of workers wouldn't even receive holidays or even sick days. (Would you want to stay in an inn where employees were forced to go to work sick? The board of health ought to be all over Disneyland.)

Families visit Disneyland from around the world. How many children did Disneyland and local law enforcement traumatize by taking Minnie Mouse away in handcuffs?

(Source: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jXGsA6a9caN4qHy8j7npWIv68-GwD92IGR380)