By Dade Hayes Finance Editor Abigail Disney posted a 25-tweet thread ripping the Walt Disney Co.’s plan to furlough 100,000 workers, mostly in its theme park division, in a move she says is about preserving executive bonuses and shareholder dividends. “What the actual f–k?????” she wondered in one of the initial tweets kicking off the thread, which is pinned to the top of her account.
Alluding to an estimate of the shareholder dividend from a recent Financial Times article Disney wrote that $1.5 billion would “pay for three months salary to front line workers.
And its going to people who have already been collecting egregious bonuses for years.” She described the idea of paying bonuses during the pandemic as “the REAL outrage.” Abigail
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