By Barbara Liston

ORLANDO, Florida |
Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:10pm EDT

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Representatives of a inhabitant classification of mothers were prevented on Thursday from delivering a petition to Walt Disney World accusing it of perplexing to retard laws that would need companies to yield paid ill leave for employees.

“They were incited divided and confidence was called,” Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive executive of MomsRising, told Reuters on Friday.

She pronounced usually a handful of members of a organisation were concerned in a aborted try to hand-deliver a petition and a Disney spokesman, Bryan Malenius, did not immediately lapse a call from Reuters for comment.

Disney employees by their unions, have battled with a association over salary and advantages in a past. In a kinship documentary called “Mouse Trapped 2010,” one worker described carrying to take handouts from churches to make ends meet.

MomsRising, that claims 1 million U.S. members, collected 6,000 signatures in a initial 24 hours after drafting a minute that calls on Disney to support healthy workers, Rowe-Finkbeiner said.

MomsRising got concerned after a Orlando Sentinel journal reported that Disney, along with a Florida Chamber of Commerce and Darden Restaurants Inc (DRI.N), that owns a Red Lobster and Olive Garden chains, helped breeze a check now before a Florida legislature to anathema internal communities from enacting their possess paid ill time rules.

The due state law follows a grassroots debate in Orange County, Disney’s home, to place a referendum about paid ill leave on a ballot. Supporters collected some-more than 50,000 signatures to place a emanate on a Nov 2012 ballot. But county commissioners by a 4-3 opinion blocked a magnitude from removing on a ballot.

In what came to be called “textgate,” some county commissioners were found to be texting with lobbyists – including Disney lobbyists – before a opinion and during a meeting.

Rowe-Finkbeiner pronounced a emanate resonates with many of her members who onslaught when they or their children are ill.

“It’s no warn that movement for warranted ill time is growing. Parents get how critical entrance to warranted ill time is and that’s because we wish Disney to stop operative to retard warranted ill time initiatives in Florida,” Rowe-Finkbeiner said.

MomsRising members were active in removing warranted ill time laws upheld in Seattle, San Francisco and Connecticut, and now are pulling for laws in New York City and Philadelphia, she said.

She pronounced 160 counties need smallest warranted ill time, and companies have found a advantage cuts down on absenteeism by shortening a widespread of illness, she noted.

(Editing by David Adams, Andrew Hay and Lisa Shumaker)