The Actors’ Equity Association had asked Walt Disney Co. to provide normal coronavirus tests to its members, who wear a protective mask while acting as other park workers do.
Disney said Wednesday that it would supply the fair outdoor area of Walt Disney World in Orlando for a review site through Florida’s Division of Emergency Management. The site will be open to Disney employees, known as cast members, and the public.
“Our movements are all interested and our network as a whole,” Disney said in a statement.
Walt Disney World reopened on July 11 with several security measures, adding limited presence, social distance at queues and attractions, and masking needs for visitors and staff.
Actors’ Equity, which represents about 750 performing artists in the park at exhibits such as the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular and Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage, said the measurements did not pass enough and called for normal tests. Disney opened the park without the artists.
The union said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Disney and was hoping to know how many employees the company would remember for its limited operations. In June, before the check dispute, Disney withdrew about 220 actors and singers, the union said.
Disney said it submitted a verification area “to assist in network verification” and that “any suggestion that this has been made as a result of a union is unfounded.”
(Report through Lisa Richwine edited through Cynthia Osterman and Leslie Adler)
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