Maintenance is on strike today and is closing / opening attractions throughout the day. Walt Disney Studios is affected the most. :roll:
That's all what's known for now.
Ow? :|
Why is that? Higher wages? Better social plan?
Hopefully this is not going to take a long time...
One of the risks of putting the resort in France I suppose...
Quote from: "Fubar"One of the risks of putting the resort in France I suppose...
That's rubbish.
Welcome to the board btw.
I think the English are getting close to equalling the french when it comes to strikes... I had a letter today from Unison indicating that all Unison members will be striking in a fortnight (affecting schools, councils, etc) :shock:
In fact, it's all over Europe. In the States the Unions don't have so much power.
yeah europe does strike...alot.
But the french do get the most reported. But the UK isn't so good either. Especially with the teachers strike closing hundreds of schools.
But yeah what are they striking over?
Quote from: "raptor1982"Maintenance is on strike today and is closing / opening attractions throughout the day. Walt Disney Studios is affected the most. :roll:
That's all what's known for now.
Well lets hope they sort it out soon, to the benefit of both sides, so that the fun can continue unhindered [-o<
I'll keep my fingers crossed, especially for those forum members who are soon to visit [-o<
Epcot_Boy :ears:
Oh how fun, what's this the second time in less than two years? God will they ever learn they will never get guests on their side so why bother :? . Hopefully no parade or shows were disrupted this time.
There's still no communication by the Union about why and how long it will take. People on Disney Central Plaza have heard it's because 2 maintenance CM's made a major mistake in Disney's book and have been fired at once.
Quote from: "raptor1982"People on Disney Central Plaza have heard it's because 2 maintenance CM's made a major mistake in Disney's book and have been fired at once.
Tssch... We can't know what the mistake was, but if it was bad enough to be fired immediately rather than a simple caution then it's probably quite foolish for other CMs in the department to follow them. Or, on the other hand, perhaps a manager really was too strict. IMO strikes are a dumb way to protest and very very rarely get you what you want. But I'm probably wrong.
Either way, it's bad that parts of the parks have been brought to a standstill over just a few CMs at the start of Summer. Obviously some maintenance CMs are continuing as normal or everything would be closed, so it's actually bad show on DLRP's part that they don't have a plan in place for this. Imagine you visted for just a couple of days and ToT, Crush, RNRC, POTC, etc are all closed. Awful.
Is this the only union: http://www.cfdt-disney.org/ (http://www.cfdt-disney.org/%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;) ? We got the link when the parade was interrupted a long time ago.
Do u think the strike's will happen in september again i was there the last time they happened and the parades were off and nearly alll the rides were breaking down.
And this was my dad's first time at disneyland paris.
Im going this year with my mum and my sister my dad is not upto going with us this year were going the 15th to 20th of September does anyone think there will be strikes.
Strike's are usually not planned that far ahead. They just 'happen'.
Does anyone know what attractions are being affected by the strike? I'm dreading that the likes of POTC, PM, TOT etc will be closed because of this when i go in 9 days.
matthews school is on strike 16th and 17th of this month!! just thought id say
Do we know how long this strike's going to last yet? Or how widely affected the resort is?
In fact everything is up and running. Attractions do open later than normal because maintenance have to give clearance for each attraction. And since there are only a few that work, it takes some time for them to finish off all the rides. Same problem when a ride breaks down, it takes a bit longer to fix things.
If they are wild cat strikes then they are likely to be over as quickly as they started. When we went to Paris last week we got caught up in a strike by the bin men burning bins outside the hotel de ville and we ended up being on french tv as we tried to get past with our cases. :P
i will do the job insted ? :P i sorta know stuff about rollercoasters etc :P
The timing is rather interesting with it being so close to Summer, one of the busiest times, but I'm sure what ever the problems are it will be resolved. People shouldn't worry about strikes anyway because Disney have plans in place to handle situations like this.
Quote from: "raptor1982"Quote from: "Fubar"One of the risks of putting the resort in France I suppose...
That's rubbish.
Welcome to the board btw.
Oh it's not "rubbish" and you know it. Come on now.
"Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times more in France than in the Netherlands."(http://ideas.repec.org/p/dgr/vuarem/2003-12.html (http://ideas.repec.org/p/dgr/vuarem/2003-12.html%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;))
"...strike-prone France..."(http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/ ... N=75370771 (http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-11/2007-11-23-voa19.cfm?CFID=8962691&CFTOKEN=75370771%22%20onclick=%22window.open(this.href);return%20false;))
Quote from: "pussinboots"Quote from: "raptor1982"Quote from: "Fubar"One of the risks of putting the resort in France I suppose...
That's rubbish.
Oh it's not "rubbish" and you know it. Come on now.
Exactly Puss, unfortunately France is well known for its strikes. However, ofcourse that doesn't mean there are no strikes in other countries, but at least they seem more uncommon. Either way, to say that its nonsense (without backing it up) doesn't make sense in my humble opinion.
I'm going on the 16th-19th July. Any chance they'll still be on strike then? I hope not, I'm hoping to ride TOT and Crush's Coaster :(
Quote from: "dlrp-mad"I'm going on the 16th-19th July. Any chance they'll still be on strike then? I hope not, I'm hoping to ride TOT and Crush's Coaster :(
Quote from: "raptor1982"In fact everything is up and running. Attractions do open later than normal because maintenance have to give clearance for each attraction. And since there are only a few that work, it takes some time for them to finish off all the rides. Same problem when a ride breaks down, it takes a bit longer to fix things.
Just come back from disney and the worst effected are crush coaster, Rock 'n' Rollar Coaster, but does open in the afternoon and some times the tram tour as well. Tower of terror seems un affected, but that may change as the strike goes on.
It's a shame that the Disney 'magic' doesn't extend to a self-repairing spell. Wouldn't need maintenace men then! A job for Harry Potter I think; whoops, sorry, wrong studio...
I hope this darn strike ends soon, I'm off to DLRP soon! I can't imagine what a big waste of time it would be if my favourite rides were closed.
dlrp-mad :mickey2: