Join us at the shop (400 NW 10th Ave) for an evening with Mike Schneider presenting his book on Disney and unions recently published by the University Press of Florida on November 10th at 6:30pm.

Mike Schneider has been an Associated Press journalist for three decades. He has lived in Orlando, Florida since 1997, reporting on Walt Disney World and the tourism industry, the trials of Casey Anthony and George Zimmerman, the Pulse nightclub massacre and countless hurricanes and space shuttle launches. The St. Louis native has a background in data mapping and covers demographics and the U.S. Census Bureau for AP. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Summary:
Behind the costumes, life isn’t always magic and fairy dust for the people who play the iconic characters of Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Cinderella at Walt Disney World. In a surprising tale of corruption alongside activism, Mickey and the Teamsters reveals the little-known story of Teamsters Local 385, the union that represents these performers. It spotlights Donna-Lynne Dalton, a former cast member who stood up for other Disney performers against deep-rooted problems in the union that was supposed to protect them. Mickey and the Teamsters offers a behind-the-scenes look at some of the hidden struggles that surround Disney World, which employs the largest single-site workforce in the United States. Through the efforts of Dalton and others to reform their union and improve the lives of employees at the workplace they loved, Schneider shows the importance of individual and collective action to hold unions accountable and preserve their potential to do good