Through surveys, focus groups, town halls and person-to-person conversations, your bargaining team will hear from as many of you as possible about what you want to see in your contract.

Your bargaining caucus will work with Equity contract staff to:

• Create language to bring to the bargaining table.
• Tell the story of how these support your priorities.

We’ll organize Cast Members who want to support the bargaining process to:

• Share information with the broader unit.
• Mobilize your coworkers when necessary.
• Demonstrate to Disney that you stand with the bargaining team.

This part of the process will take the longest!

The bargaining team will meet Disney representatives to negotiate the terms of your first contract.

Each side comes to the table with a set of proposals, and over the course of many meetings, they either accept those proposals, offer counter proposals, or suggest new solutions to identified problems.

As in all negotiations, each side may make some compromises where each side gives up some of what they hoped to achieve in order to bring both sides closer to agreement.

The caucus will also work with the action team to gather additional information that may help across the table or overcome potential obstacles through collective action.

After months of meeting at the bargaining table, both sides of the negotiation agree to terms and create a draft contract called a Tentative Agreement.

Following a recommendation by Equity’s national council, the tentative agreement is formalized by a vote of Equity members in the bargaining unit.

If you want to have a final say as to whether the contract that’s been bargained should become your contract, you must join the union in time to vote on ratification. All members who join prior to ratification will have their initiation fees waived. Members who join after the vote will be required to pay an initiation fee, amount to be determined.

Equity’s national council will put forth a recommendation to ratify, and all members who are eligible to vote will receive ballots to approve the contract. Once the contract is formally approved, it goes into immediate effect.

If you want to have a final say as to whether the contract should be approved, you must join the union in time to vote on ratification.

All members who join prior to ratification will have their initiation fees waived.

Members who join after the vote will be required to pay an initiation fee, amount to be determined.