WALT DISNEY H-1B Visas
You can wish upon a star. It doesn’t matter who you are. Unless you are an American that works for CEO Bob Iger’s idea of Disney.
The H-1B Visa program is designed to let U.S. companies hire foreigners at prevailing wages when they can’t find qualified Americans. Disgustingly, lobbyists were able to insure their corporate donors do not have to adhere to “prevailing wages” nor does their have to be an American shortage. They displace Americans as they please and replacement foreign workers are paid 40 percent less than Americans doing the same work. A scummy revolting process as un-American as can be, in full keeping with what leaderless American Corporate process has become. Corporate America and their lobbies designed and bought the loopholes that were written into law.
Jimmie, Roy and Bob, Annette, Sharon, Bobby, Lonnie, Tommy, Darlene, Karen, Doreen and who could forget, Cubby. If you were growing up in the 50’s you will never forget these names. They were original cast members of The M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E Club. Walt Disney often said “I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – If you can dream you can do it, and always remember that this whole thing started with a dream and a mouse”.
I remember this kind and gentle man. At the beginning of each Mickey Mouse Club show, Walt Disney would appear and offer words of fun and beauty and hope in this great land. Each week he would leave you inspired and a believer in him and this Country that once served as a great beacon for all that is good in mankind.
The H-1B Visa program sucks the quality of life from educated American professionals by replacing them with educated professionals from other countries that are happy to work for low wages. And Disney’s CEO is a strong believer in “not” having any loyalty to Disney or American workers….He also is a strong advocate for this terrible quality of life destroying program. Damn-Unbelievable.
In October of 2014 About 250 Disney IT employees were told that they would be laid off. They were replaced by immigrants on H1-B1 visas for highly skilled technical workers who were brought in from India. Over the next three months, many Disney employees were required to degrade themselves and train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost. If they refused to train their replacement they would be denied severance and benefits. The American belief system is not designed to accept such treachery. How could Disney do this?
As we may weep for the demise of the wonder and decency of Walt Disney we should remember that the man himself would have no part in the corporate treachery that exists today. His loyalty to America and his employees was a roadmap to the American dream. His hope was that successors would use his values as a beacon. He once said: “No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives”…Walt Disney.”
Walt Disney was a believer in America. To him America was the land where kids and anyone could dream and that dream could become real. Walt was born December 5th, 1901. He tried to join the Army in 1917 and was rejected due to his age. The war ended in 1918 and Walt drove an ambulance in France. By the time WWII began the Walt Disney Company was underway. The Walt Disney Company produced 68 propaganda, training and documentary films for the US war effort during World War II. He said during this experience: “I’ve been selfishly indulging myself as an American…as a United States citizen…enjoying all privileges that one has as a citizen, and it’s only times like this that you sort of wake up to…what it really means to be a citizen.” (Hello! Mr. Iger)
To show you more about Walt Disney’s great love of country, here are a few of Walt Disney quotes:
“Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination–a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight….Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is glowing this red, white, and blue stripe….I believe that this spiritual and intellectual freedom which we Americans enjoy is our greatest cultural blessing….Therefore, it seems to me, that the first duty of culture is to defend freedom and resist all tyranny….Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals and the dreams that have created America….Laughter is America’s most important export.”
Walt was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on May 24, 1968 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964. Current CEO Bob Iger may well get a similar award from the Indian Government where most H1-B1 visas are used.
Disney CEO Bob Iger is paid $22,000 yes twenty two thousand dollars an hour (average 40 hour week) or $46,500.000 per year. (as he raises park fees) Walt Disney never would have joined the vulture culture of the 1% and if he ever finds a way to channel from heaven Disney CEO Bob Iger would lose a cool 46,000,000 per year in wages and every employee at Disney would own a home. Actually Iger would lose his job. And no Disney American would ever lose their livelihood and be displaced on the cheap with foreign labor. In lieu of that kind of employee loyalty, CEO Bob Iger is one of eight co-chairs of the Partnership for a New American Economy, a leading group advocating for an increase in the H-1B visa cap. This partnership was a sponsor of an H-1B briefing at the U.S. Capitol for congressional staffers. Bought leaders. So much for Americans and Disney.
Solution – A Disney CEO willing to look at American Corporate Structure and lead the corporate way toward returning Disney to the Walt Disney standard of values, with structure, loyalty and pay designed around employees and American Dreams and Happiness. A CEO willing to reset the Corporate Standard and be a beacon for America and American Business. The Disney, executive and corporate fortune exceeds Scrooge McDucks, yet they keep his greedy values. I remember Walt Disney well and his vision of happiness and dreams. He never would have joined this disloyal gravy train for so few that ignores the people and even his employees. That greed, and of all things, a lack of patriotism, would infect his story of wonder is indeed an American tragedy.
I leave you again with Walt’s own words: “No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives.” Walt Disney
(Note: Just to give you an example of how well hidden the filthy rich are and how much the system has allowed them to take from you: How many know that Laurene Powell, wife of Apples Steve Jobs is the largest Disney Shareholder? She owns 7 ½ percent of Disney which is Nine and a half billion dollars. Yeah, raise the gate prices, fire some more people, displace Americans…Watch kids die of lead in Flint…Good Lord, what have we become?)
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