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disney heiress abigail disney is speaking out against wage inequality, calling disney ceo bob iger's salary "insane." in an op-ed for "the washington post" published tuesday titled "it's time to call out disney -- and anyone else rich off their workers' backs," she wrote -- "iger took home more than $65 million in 2018. that's 1424 times the median pay of a disney worker. at the pay levels we are talking about, an executive giving up half his bonus has zero effect on his quality of life. for the people at the bottom, it could mean a ticket out of poverty or debt. it could offer access to decent health care or an education for a child." in south africa, at least 33 people are dead in the eastern province of kwazulu-natal, after floods and mudslides crushed homes around the city of durban. some parts of south africa have received over nine inches of rain since monday, more than three times the average monthly total for all of april. in climate news, an alarming new report published in the journal nature communications finds that without immediate action to curb greenhouse gas emissions

>> well, kudos to abigail disney.o be more heirs speaking out about what is happening right now. the obscene level of ceo and top executive pay. and how donald trump and the trump administration are actually fueling this. for example, the giant tax cut that was supposed to lift the wages of most americans did not lift the wages of most americans. it did, though, fuel extraordinary increases in ceo pay like disney, like bob iger, and it also led to a huge buyback of stocks and that just art officially pumped up shares of stock. >> when i was a girl, a fu full-time job wage of america would support a family of three. today a minimum wage job in america will not keep a mama and a baby out of poverty. that is wrong. it is worth fighting for. >> do you see it as the decisions the corporations are playing go or something the government has to better mandate? >> you cannot separate the two. as abigail disney said in her editorial, the disney company took a very, very strong role in trying to keep minimum wages down so that i

abigail disney tweeted on sunday that iger's $66 million compensation last year is quote insane with disney employee makes just over $46,000 a year. and he says that the companies could have given every disneyland employee a 15% raise by simply cutting iger's compensation to million. disneyland employees make $15 an hour abigail disney says that that is still too low for a company that reported a record annual profit last year part of that profit is the avengers endgame movie which opens in theaters thursday night after setting a new record for best ever us ticket sales, according to the movie ticket website fandango disney owns marvel studios and speaking of the avengers the stars of avengers endgame made a permanent imprint on hollywood not because of. >>those huge sales were expecting that by participating in a tinseltown tradition placing handprints in the cement outside of the ground in chinese theater this happened today this air the ceremony rather follow the movies red carpet premiere which happened last night. >>and will open of the show with a mega showdown in san jose shark

abigail disney, the granddaughter of disney, criticized the multimillion dollar pay on sunday tweetingy objective measure, a pay raise of over a thousand is insane. last year the $66 million package was 1424 times the median salary of a disney employee which is 46,127. his pay was largely boosted by long-term incentives associated with his contract extension which was announced alongside the deal for disney to purchase most of 21st century fox. disney said he could have personally given a 15% raise to everyone who worked at disneyland when he got his bonus last year and still had $10 million. she dove deeper into her remarks sunday and in nearly two dozen tweets saying while he does deserve a bonus, the employees deserve the dignity of a living wage. the disney company signed a new deal raising the minimum wage of walt disney workers to $15 an hour by 2021. the company defended eiger's pay which they say is 90% performance based. >>> a recall includes toys sold between october and november of 2018. there have been reports of wheels detaching. no injuries have been reported but recalled

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in a "washington post" op-ed, abigail disney believes executives deserve bonuses but the people who contributesuccess deserve a share. the disney company says it has made historic investments in workers' pay and benefits. >> there was a study this month showing average ceo pay is 271 times the average worker. >>> mcdonald's is targeting a new demographic. they're teaming with aarp to attra attract older adults to join its workforce. mcdonald's tends to attract younger workers. but unemployment is historically low. they're piloting the program in florida, illinois, missouri, north carolina with a national rollout planned for the summer. mcdonald's plans to fill 250,000 jobs. >> very good. we've heard of high schools implementing dress codes for students. now james madison high school in houston, texas, telling parents how to dress. >> uh-oh. >>> in a letter sent out earlier this month, it says parents cannot enter school grounds wearing pajamas or revealing clothing, leggings, sagging pants, low rider shorts, hair curlers and rose mcaps. >>> rosemary was handed this. >> we come here belligerent

david: roy disney's granddaughter, abigail disney, blasting iger's paycheck, calling it insane. 1400 . >> i think some ceos may not be able to, but how many ceos in world could do bob iger's job, maybe 5 or 6. if you can bring in the money, whatever you pay, the college coaches they get 10 million, they bring in 180, if bob iger can continue he is worth the penny. >> he is one of greatest value creators in this industry, bought pixar, and lucas and marvel at fraction of what they are worth, created a big park. i had a big talk with iger last year, keep in mind, the transaction with fox, he was to retire a couple of career years, with this transaction, one thing that sellers wanted was to see bob iger in charge for a few years, you keep him onboard by offers a generous package, this is not a salary. >> he has create the a lot of wealth and value for shareholders, i believe some are actually disney employees, do we look to their net worth, including their stock comp compensation? i think most thing to note, bob iger should keep doing. >> there is noah, -- appropriate ratio, market pays

disney employee, around $46,000. in a "washington post" op-ed, abigail says the executives deserve bonuses but the people who contributetments in workers pay and benefits. >>> mcdonald's is targeting a new demographic but not on the menu. the fast food giant is teaming with aarp to attract older adults to join it massive workforce. right now, 11% of the workers are 50 and older. they tend to attract those younger but unemployment is historically low. they're targeting it in florida, illinois, missouri and north carolina with a national rollout planned for the summer. mcdonald's hopes to fill some 250,000 jobs. >>> all right. tonight is the night. avengers end game makes the premiere ahead of the highly anticipated release. stephen colbert's team found similarities between the blockbuster and the democrats 2020 field. >> the world has changed. none of us can go back. we watched as everything crumbled. it's going to take a special team of people to undo the damage done by earth's greatest threat. no, not this power hungry narcissist. this power hungry narcissist. to take him down, the democrats have assembled a group of

post" entitled "it's time to call out disney and anyone else rich off their workers' backs," abigail disneyhief executive, bob iger, a pay package last year worth $65 million. abigail is granddaughter of roy disney, who founded disney in 1923 with his brother, walt. the disney family has not been involved with managing the company since 2003. she writes this, it's time to call out the men and women who lead us and to draw a line in the sand about how low we are prepared to let hard-working people sink while top management takes home ever more outrageous sums of money. the people who contributing to its success also deserve a share of the profits they have helped make happen. here's my suggestion to the walt disney company leadership. lead. if any of this rings any moral bells for you, know that you are uniquely situated to model a different way of doing business. yasmin, this is like the ultimate inequality story. i've heard this a lot about disney and other companies where the people at the very bottom, they never grow. >> and it's interesting because disney's defense to all of this is we

abigail disney goes on to say wage inequality can be curbed by rewarding all employees to help rebuild we have joe sandberg. joe, thanks for coming on the show. >> thanks for having me. charles: you know, it is always, this is growing conversation, we have presidential candidates pushing legislation or saying that they will go after this sort of egregious acts. on the other side of that, looking at a country, america, which is the most successful economic country in the history of mankind in large part because of our capitalist system. >> yes, that's right. charles: how do we reconcile these two? >> what i believe we can have a great country and still improve it a lot. we can have a great market but still need to address the flaws. the biggest flaw in the free market right now too many people are working multiple jobs and they still can't afford life's basic needs. i grew up pretty close to disneyland. unfortunately the happiest place on earth cast as dark shadow among the communities that live near it. let me tell you what happens to workers at disneyland. one out of 10 workers at dis

abigail disney says iger's $65 million compensation is, quote, insane. she says it's an example of companies giving lavish awards to top executives instead of improving the lot of lower wage workers. the supreme court agreed to take on job discrimination cases that could for the first time settle, whether gay, buy sexual and transgender workers could be fired based on their sexual identity. the issue is whether lgbt people are protected under the federal civil rights act. the trump administration says the law doesn't provide such protection. you can get your caffeine fix with a gummy bear. there's cold brew bears that are infused with the same amount of caffeine as a shot of espresso. the bears are made in collaboration with the famous los angeles coffee spot, alfred coffee. lauren, that's your morning buzz. lauren: those are going to be really expensive, by the. cherylway.cheryl: they're goine great. lauren: still ahead, elon musk is making some really big promisepromise at the company's investors conference. can he deliveries the question? investors ar

abigail disney is the granddaughter i believe of the founder.n agitator, saying that bob iger's salary is outrageous. so i think bernie is tucking in beside her so he can draft off of it. i guess if he were to lose the primary and if he were to right another book, then he should tell his publisher i don't need in advance. i think we should all -- i'm going to write this book and work really hard on it and i could live another 25 years but i don't want in advance, i don't want the prophets to come to me. let's give it to everybody else. that would show that he has skin in the game. >> greg: i agree. i was just thinking he should slice his salary in half and give half to the lowest assistance on his staff. you can think that ceos get too much money but it still doesn't mean you should trust the government to make that decision. especially a government that includes bernie sanders and i agree with you, juan. i'm relieved joe biden has a more commanding lead over this childish president because this is logic that's not even worthy of a second grader

melissa: disney heiress abigail disney critsided bog iger that his salary is four times the company.y any measure a pay ratio over a thousand, she has no formal connection with the company eastern she is a shareholder. ashley: and her name is disney. >>> a botched early release. samsung delaying the rollout off the galaxy fold after the 2,000 smartphone broke for the reviewers. not good. we'll have the latest details on the fallout. today, president trump and first lady taking part in the annual white house easter festivities. even the president blowing the whistle to kick off the whole event. this is the third time by the way the trumps have hosted the easter egg roll. ♪ the matters.ar... introducing the all-new 2019 ford ranger, it's the right gear. with a terrain management system for... this. a bash plate for... that. an electronic locking rear differential for... yeah... this. heading to the supermarket? get any truck. heading out here? get the ford ranger. the only adventure gear built ford tough. rather than worry about how to pay for long-term care. brighthouse smartcare℠ is

. >> without a doubt >> abigail disney seems to have some issues with compensations yesterday.m to caught everybody's attention in a positive way film schedules in a positive thing. >> price >> at some point we'll talk about the sales. that's not positive. investors don't seem to care >> no, when people talk about executives, hey, that's an issue that senator warren, it is going to resonate from wall street because you can make the case they make so much. >> yeah. >> i think they do make a case like that. >> is the shareholders happy >> i salute you and bob iger >> both of us. >> we got about 4.5 minutes. we have not talked about verizon this morning so let's do that. sb iharos on tonight >> we got more "squawk on the street" after this how do you gauge the greatness of an suv? is it to carry cargo... or to carry on a legacy? its show of strength... or its sign of intelligence? in crossing harsh terrain... or breaking new ground? this is the mercedes-benz suv family. if you've never seen yourself in a mercedes, you've never seen these offers. lease the gla 250 for just $379 a m

abigail: coming up next on "bloomberg best," more compelling conversations. martin gilbert on the saudi aramco bond sale. nominee stephen moore and bob iger on the launch of disney'seaming service. bullish onis emerging markets regardless of how u.s.-china trade talks play out. >> our view is we probably will get a deal, but they won't matter much. abigail: this is bloomberg. ♪ abigail: welcome back to "bloomberg best." i'm abigail doolittle. time to revisit some of the week's top interviews. we got plenty of investor perspective on saudi aramco's $12 billion bond sale. here is martin gilbert at the bloomberg invest conference in avid dobby. dabi. >> it looks as if it's gone really well. >> as an investor, you seen plenty of bond issues. would you say this is something to buy more of in the secondary market on the reading of the data you have? >> i suspect it will be too pricey in the secondary market. i don't know. if i say to a fund manager to buy something, he sells it, so -- he will probably buy now rather than sell. >> you think you could cheapen up perhaps and the second market. >> i'm not sure. i think the demand is so massive that from what i read, it will

abigail: this week, disney held its investor day and the spotlight was on his highly anticipated suitereaming services. chang got more into detail on the company's plans directly from ceo robert iger. making them available robert: making them available at a price that makes sense, with a user-interface that is beatable, that's what we go confident this is a product that people will sign up in droves to have. emily: you have said you will likely bundle hulu, disney plus and when and what will drive that decision? robert: you can figure that we will bundle espn plus and disney plus fairly soon. we don't have an exact date. we're launching disney plus in november. hulu, we have partners. everything has to be done with them in mind. bundling would be something we might take to the hulu management, but it would require the approval. we think there will be consumers that want all three. eventually we want to make it possible for consumers to buy all three. emily: will you be attending to buy all of hulu? robert: we'll see. we've been in conversations about that possibility. it's early to spe

robert iger he's got a job but he's under fire from a granddaughter of the company's co-founder, abigail disneyfor my family but only for myself. other than owning shares, not that many, i have no more say in what happens there than anyone else. but by any objective measure, a pay ratio over 1,000 is insane. well, a recent study found that iger's annual compensation is more than 1400 times more than the median disney employee's pay. meanwhile, disneyland's three hotels are selling out ahead of the highly anticipated opening of the new star wars land. only rooms going for more than $760 a night are still available. this opening day by the way, mat time at disney the company is limiting visits to the new attraction to four hours during the initial soft opening but a lot of buzz about that family fuel is taking a cruise. they're heading out to he sea. carnival cruise lines announced the game will be a feature on the new mardi gras ship that debuts next year. the set will be complete with the buzzers. steve harvey won't be there. the ship's cruise director will act at the mc. maria: privacy at work

abigail: this week, disney held its investor day, and the spotlight was on its highly anticipated suitew streaming services. emily chang got more detail on the company's plans directly from ceo robert iger. bob: i think making them available on a new technology platform, on a technology platform that is simply more modern and i think growing in popularity at a price that makes sense, with a user interface that is beautiful, that's why we feel confident this is a product that people will sign up in droves to have. emily: you have said you will likely bundle disney plus, espn plus, and hulu. when and what will drive that decision? bob: i think you can figure that we will bundle espn plus and disney plus fairly soon. i do not know, i don't have an exact date. we're launching disney plus in november. hulu, we still have minority partners. everything we do with hulu has to be done with them in mind. so bundling would be something that we might take to the hulu management and the board, but it would require the approval. but we think there will be consumers that want all three. eventually, we

vonnie: abigail, thank you for that. we go to disney and its new plus.ing service, disney joining us on the phone is kiev a media and entertainment analyst. he is keeping the strong by opinion on shares, and on the price target as well. cheering this service. i am wondering if there's any risk to the forecast. they will not make a profit tell 2024, that seems that a wideband. guest: right. the price target, we are actually kind of revisiting the price target. but as far as the outlook you alluded to, we were quite impressed first off with a demo itthe user interface him yet is pretty clear to us that this is a service that could be a potential game changer and we think that the estimates for $60 million to $90 million by 2024 --ld in fact be conservative estimates for 60 million to 90 million subscribers 2024 could be conservative. if you look at the appetite for quality offerings, it is pretty clear to us that disney has something special here, especially in international markets when they begin the phased in rollouts in asia-pacific,

to rest up for tomorrow, the day we'll finally get something done. ( ♪ ) stuart: walt disney's granddaughter abigailing iger's pay package i. susan: he's making $65.6 million, yes, that's a very large sum. probably requires a higher voice as well. she says it's ridiculous because bob iger earned 1,000 times, 14,024 times more than the median disney employee last year. she says iger could have given a 15% raise to every disney employee and still pocket $10 million. it's insane he's making 1400 times more than the average employee. stuart: he's worth every penny. he's one of the best ceos in america and has added enormously to disney's stock value. >>> here we go, we have opened on the downside. can't quite understand that. we are down five points -- okay, now we are up 26. they are opening up gradually. so far, we are on the upside, not by very much, fractional gain for the dow in the very early going. how about the s&p 500? where is that this morning? same story. a fractional gain. i'm sure that's true of the nasdaq as well. fractional gain, is it? yes, it is. a bit better, .14%. okay. so technology