Downtown Disney LEGO Store Announces Union Organization

For the first time in the United States, a LEGO Store is seeking to unionize. Downtown Disney’s LEGO Store announced that they are organizing with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW).

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LEGO Store at Downtown Disney with a large dragon sculpture, colorful displays, and palm trees by the entrance.

According to Los Angeles news station KTLA5, LEGO Store employees say the reasoning for the unionization is about fairness and having a voice in decisions that affect their jobs. Hunter Gulino, a LEGO Store brick specialist, mentioned the following in the union statement:

Thousands of our friends and coworkers at Disneyland are already members of a union, we just want the same rights they enjoy. To us, having a union is about being treated fairly.

LEGO Store employees at the Downtown Disney District do not work directly for Disney. However, UFCW said they are covered under a recent settlement that guarantees a living wage because the store is part of Downtown Disney. The union also stated that LEGO employees were not given the same clear information about benefits that Disney employees received.

Roughly 80% of Disneyland employees are union members represented by 27 different unions across the resort. Wages for unionized employees have risen by 40% over the past five years.

LEGO Store at Downtown Disney

A man kneels beside a girl using a touchscreen at the LEGO Store in Downtown Disney’s Minifigure Factory.

The Downtown Disney LEGO Store is located right next to the Monorail station. Guests can shop for LEGO sets, watch demonstrations, and turn personal photos into a mosaic.

It’s also the West Coast’s one and only Minifigure Factory, where you can personalize a LEGO Minifigure.

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