

Walt Disney heiress Abigail Disney launched a scathing attack against her family’s famous firm for reportedly furloughing 100,000 low-paid workers — despite previously paying billions in executive bonuses.
“WHAT THE ACTUAL F***?????” wrote the 60-year-old granddaughter of Walt Disney’s brother, Roy Disney, at the start of a furious 25-tweet screed accusing management of “pillaging and rampaging.”
“I am an heir. And I do carry this name with me everywhere,” Disney said after noting she does not have a role in the company.
“And I have a conscience which makes it very difficult for me to sit by when I see abuses taking place with that name attached to them.”
Disney’s tirade was sparked by a report in the Financial Times saying that the company was no longer paying more than 100,000 theme-park employees this week, nearly half of its workforce, which analysts say could lead to $50 million-a-month savings.
Yet the company in recent years paid dividends to executives “typically” worth $1.5 billion, the FT claimed.
“The REAL outrage is, of course, those bonuses … 1.5 billion of them. 1.5 BILLION,” Disney raged in her Tweets.
“That’d pay for three months salary to front line workers. And its going to people who have already been collecting egregious bonuses for years,” she complained.
The Financial Times stressed that the company has yet to comment on its 2020 dividend plan. The amount is decided at the end of the fiscal year, and could theoretically be nothing, insiders say.
Still, the heiress attacked the fact that “front line workers at the parks had to fight for years to get their pay bumped up to $15/hr,” deriding PR attempts to paint it as “incredible magnanimity” — noting it was just $31,400 a year for a full-time worker.
She then claimed that former Disney chairman Bob Iger’s “compensation for THIS YEAR will amount to 1,500x their pay,” with similar multi-million-dollar pay for his replacement, Bob Chapek.
“What kind of person is comfortable with this???” she asked. “If you have a shred of empathy in your body … none of this compensation bulls–t is possible.”
While she conceded the firm “faces a rough couple of years,” she said, “That does not constitute permission to continue pillaging and rampaging by management.”
“THIS COMPANY MUST DO BETTER,” she insisted, telling management to “pay the people who make the magic happen with respect and dignity they have more than earned from you.”
“BE DECENT,” she ended her thread.
The company did not immediately respond to comment.




