美国国家公共电台 NPR Disney Says Promised Bonus Depends On Workers Signing Wage Contract
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：2018年NPR美国国家公共电台2月
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When Congress passed a sweeping 1 tax overhaul 2 last December, it lowered the corporate 3 tax rate, and dozens of companies promised to share the good fortune with employees. The Walt Disney Company was among them, offering its workers a thousand-dollar bonus. But as NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports, it turns out for many workers, there are conditions.
YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE 4: Shortly after the Republican bill passed, Disney promised $1,000 bonuses to all non-management employees. But this month, Disney added a requirement that unions approve and ratify 5 the company's latest contract offer before workers see their bonus. Eric Clinton is a veteran Disney World cast member in Orlando and president of the Unite Here Local 362 union.
ERIC CLINTON: I've seen the company do things that I think is wrong in the past. I've never seen them do something this outrageous 6.
NOGUCHI: The Service Trades Council Union, a six-union coalition 7 representing 38,000 Disney World workers, says the company is playing an illegal game of hardball. On Monday, the group filed a complaint with the National Labor 8 Relations Board. Ed Chambers 9 is that union coalition's president.
ED CHAMBERS: We are taking the position as a council they're two separate things. Give us the thousand-dollar bonus like everybody else. Continue to bargain a contract.
NOGUCHI: In December, an overwhelming majority of union members rejected the theme park's latest offer of a $200 signing bonus and a $1-an-hour raise over two years. Madeline Johnson voted against that deal. She's a ride operator at Disney's Animal Kingdom and says the company is retaliating 10 against workers who voted no.
MADELINE JOHNSON: I just feel like I'm trying to be bribed 11, and I feel discriminated 12 against because I don't think it's right that we have to go through this and be blackmailed 13 into accepting something.
NOGUCHI: Johnson says she wants to hold out for a bigger raise, which she says is worth far more to her than a one-time bonus. Disney did not respond to requests seeking comment. Maria Cornell, who works in a Disney Store, says she had plans for her bonus.
MARIA CORNELL: We were very excited for getting it. As a matter of fact, I was going to buy my new glasses.
NOGUCHI: Those plans are now on hold because both her bonus and the contract that her union voted to reject remain in limbo 14. She wants to see Disney's latest offer ratified 15.
CORNELL: I just want to get it over with.
NOGUCHI: Earlier this month, Disney reported a $1.6 billion one-time gain during its fiscal 16 first quarter largely because its tax rate was slashed 17. Yuki Noguchi, NPR News, Washington.
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- His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
- We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
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- He was blackmailed by an enemy agent (into passing on state secrets). 敌特威胁他（要他交出国家机密）。
- The strikers refused to be blackmailed into returning to work. 罢工者拒绝了要挟复工的条件。
- His life seemed stuck in limbo and he could not go forward and he could not go back.他的生活好像陷入了不知所措的境地，进退两难。
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- The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
- The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。