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Walt Disney World Cuts Hours of Thousands of Trade Workers.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2001
By Robert Johnson, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 31--About 4,000 skilled trade workers at Walt Disney World are being forced to cut back their normal 40-hour work weeks by up to 20 percent.
The cost-cutting move has already hit hourly service workers, and salaried personnel also have been asked to voluntarily trim their hours as Disney endures a slump made worse by the terrorist attacks last month.
Workers said Disney management hasn't said when the hours, as many as eight a week for some, might be restored.
"We have families. We can't afford 20 percent pay cuts," said one worker who didn't want to be identified.
Disney's trade workers, who are unionized, include two categories....
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