The Region - News from Sept. 19, 1986

A three-year contract that includes bonuses, extra night pay and improved benefits for more than 2,000 Disneyland employees was ratified by union members. Paul Mihalow, a spokesman for the Joint Council of Teamsters No. 42, said the contract had been recommended for approval by the union’s negotiating committee. The final vote on the agreement was 934 to 389. “We feel it’s a fair and equitable package,” Disneyland spokesman Bob Roth said. The previous two-year contract, which expired at midnight Sunday, was negotiated after Disneyland employees struck for 21 days in 1984, the first walkout in the Anaheim park’s 30-year history. The new contract affects 2,027 employees, about half of the park’s 5,000 full-time workers, many of whom are ride operators, janitors, ticket sellers, busboys, warehouse workers and sales clerks.