I want workers to get what they deserve. They gotta do what they gotta do.
I have a trip planned in 2 weeks. It took me 18 months to plan with a group of 9 family members, work off, costing over 10,000$ etc etc. is there anything I need to do to prep if a strike happens?
Have good
travel insurance and be sure it covers strikes?
But seriously, I don't think there's much you can do. Assuming that the parks stay open, I'd just prepare for a diminished experience and limited offerings.
In my (not Disney) experience, in the event of a strike they have management personnel in operations positions take the place of striking workers and try to shift any non-striking employees from any department around to the positions emptied by the strike. In an office or a 'regular' business that can be doable.
But with Disney, if there are not enough trained staff, then places will have to close. Ride operations especially have safety requirements, meaning you can't put any old employee at a ride console and say 'hit the red button to stop'. They have to meet minimum training requirements. So for example, you might be able to put a cook out waiting tables or working retail, but you couldn't put that cook operating a ride unless you devote XX hours to training them. And they'd have minimum 'sanitation' requirements too, so if the janitors are part of the strike then janitorial management staff will have to meet those requirements or close and/or rotate open restrooms. Same with food service, management will become line cooks, servers, hosts/hostesses. It's all about the numbers available to shift around and the experience the available non-striking staff has to work different jobs.
Of course Disney can always bring in scabs. And I wouldn't put it past them. Or that they'll 'encourage'
bribe striking workers to violate picket lines and work anyway. These are hard times and money is scarce.
