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1. Disneyland employees who perform as many of the theme park's beloved characters have filed to have a vote on whether to join a union, the Actor's Equity Association, which represents live performers all over the country, from actors on Broadway to strippers in Los Angeles. Have you ever been to Disneyland or any other Disney park?

2. Union organizing efforts have picked up in the last year, especially in the wake of a number of high profile contract wins by unions that provided union members with large pay raises. Included in those wins were contracts covering 32,000 hourly workers at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, which gave them raises equal to $3 an hour by the end of last year, and raises of about 37% over their previous hourly rate by 2026. If you have worked in a union, do you think it is better than non union?

3. There are more than 21,000 Disneyland "cast member" employees, who are represented by more than a dozen unions. Those unionized jobs include everything from retail and food service workers to security guards, hair and make-up artists and pyrotechnic workers. But it doesn't include the performers who dress up as characters such as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy and interact with visitors. Do you think these cast members should be included in a union?