The Orlando Sentinel reports the Reedy Creek Fire Fighters Association Local 2117 which represents the emergency workers that cover Walt Disney World will be picketing at the Disney Springs parking garage on Sunday – the first day the Town Center officially opens.
It will be the first time in decades the union has demonstrated on Disney property.
For decades, a provision in the union’s labor agreement prohibited such protests. The provision was apparently put into the labor agreement in the 1970s, after firefighters demonstrated along a road leading into the Magic Kingdom.
The union won the right to picket again in 2013 during contract negotiations.
The workers have been working without a contract for a year and a half and negotiations are currently stalled.