Vorig jaar verdiende Bob Iger, de CEO van The Walt Disney Company, 65,6 miljoen dollar ofwel 1.424 keer meer dan het gemiddelde van wat zijn personeel wordt uitbetaald.

Volgens Walt Disneys kleindochter Abigail Disney kan dat niet door de beugel. “Ik heb Bob Iger graag,” tweette ze, “maar dat is pure waanzin.” Ze pikt het ook niet dat Iger kritiek op het lage salaris van zijn personeel probeert te ontwijken door te zeggen dat hij hen meer dan het minimumloon uitbetaalt en opleidingen aanbiedt.

“We weten allemaal dat je van het minimumloon niet kan leven,” schreef Disney. “Waarom moeten we ons daar ook aan houden als het bedrijf winstgevender is dan ooit? Wie bijdraagt aan het succes van een bedrijf, zou geen honger mogen lijden, insuline moeten rantsoeneren of in zijn auto moeten slapen.”

To brush aside criticism of the low wage you pay workers at the company by saying you pay more than the Federal Minimum Wage and that you provide opportunities for education is a dodge. We all know the Federal Minimum is too low to live on. So why must we, at a company that’s…

— Abigail Disney (@abigaildisney) April 21, 2019

What on earth would be wrong with shifting some of the profits—the fruits of these employees‘ labor— to some folks other than those at the top? I’m not saying iger doesn’t deserve a bonus. He most certainly does. He is brilliant and has led the company brilliantly

— Abigail Disney (@abigaildisney) April 21, 2019

It’s nice to give a bonus to a person pulling down a salary. Everybody loves that. You know what everybody loves more than that? A raise. And if the tax cut makes a bonus possible and that tax cut is permanent doesn’t it stand to reason you could have given a raise instead?

— Abigail Disney (@abigaildisney) April 21, 2019

There are just over 200K employees at Disney. If you took half that 65 M bonus, along with half the very generous bonuses everyone else up in the C suites got, I am quite certain you could move significant resources down the line to more evenly share in the great success

— Abigail Disney (@abigaildisney) April 21, 2019

Iger’s bonus alone. That alone would be pretty dramatic. Then add in 50% of the rest of the upper tier bonuses. Now we are talking about a DRAMATIC change in living conditions for people who up til now worked full time and yet we’re living at or below the poverty line

— Abigail Disney (@abigaildisney) April 21, 2019

At the 65M dollar bonus range we are talking about something ridiculous. If you send your kid to an expensive school and we cut your bonus in half, gosh you’d give up 740 years of her education. 7.5 $5M yachts you can’t buy. 3.5 $10M jets.

— Abigail Disney (@abigaildisney) April 21, 2019

Because they haven’t been educated enough. You are shifting blame to them. What if every one of your minimum wage workers took you up on that education opportunity? That’s if they have time to do so since they probably can’t afford the necessary childcare or transportation.

— Abigail Disney (@abigaildisney) April 21, 2019

Or exhausted to get anything out of them. And do you really intend to offer education tailored to the needs of the diverse people who need it? Some will be barely literate in their native tongue (not a condemnation, just a hard truth) and would need a lot of remediation

— Abigail Disney (@abigaildisney) April 21, 2019

You will always employ housekeepers and janitors etc. And you’re saying that because you make it possible for them to leave these jobs you therefore don’t have to pay them a fair wage. If a person works full time for you, regardless of where they come from or who they are

— Abigail Disney (@abigaildisney) April 21, 2019

A full time worker—at any job— should be able to afford medicine food housing transportation child care and education. At a minimum! Do not insult them by implying they are not trying hard enough. If you need beds changed and towels washed, and you are unwilling to do so yourself

— Abigail Disney (@abigaildisney) April 21, 2019

To your success. Anyone who contributes to the success of a profitable company and who works full time to do so should not go hungry, should not ration insulin, and should not have to sleep in a car.

— Abigail Disney (@abigaildisney) April 21, 2019

Bron: IndieWire