After Disney refused recognition, IATSE, on behalf of The Animation Guild, filed a petition for a National Labor Relations Board vote.
Nickelodeon Animation Studios’ production workers now represent the largest bargaining unit of production workers to organize under TAG.
The suit claims generative AI art tools violate copyright law by scraping artists’ work from the web without their consent.
According to The Animation Guild, Nickelodeon’s lawyers are pushing to divide workers based on job title to unnecessarily prolong the unionization process.
Three of five TAG officers won re-election, including Steve Kaplan, Jeanette Moreno King, and Paula Spence.
Animation and live-action director Clay Kaytis believes it’s time for all directors to be covered by the Directors Guild of America.
The Disney workers’ strike of 1941 changed animation forever, and Friedman’s book tells the whole story for the first time.
A bargaining unit of 100 production workers have joined animation workers and writers at the studio who were already covered by TAG.
The video revisits several now-legendary vfx horror stories and suggests ways that a collapse of the industry may be avoided.
The workers are the second N.Y.-based group to do so, after Titmouse workers voted to unionize in January of this year.
A judge has agreed that writer Jeffery Scott plausibly alleged that Disney used protectable elements of his work in the 2018 reboot.
Marvel may be the vfx industry bogeyman at present, but they’re certainly not the only studio exploiting artists and technicians.
Support for reform is growing as pro-animation WGA member Raphael Bob-Waksberg campaigns to join the organization’s board.
As Carell’s fee went viral, so to did a conversation about how artists are compensated for their work and their creations.
Visual effects workers who are on projects with “serious issues” may no longer work from home.
The group alleges the school mishandled student-on-student reports of sexual assault, sexual harassment, threats of violence, and stalking.
The workers filed to join The Animation Guild in May, and have now won voluntary recognition from Disney’s 20th Television Animation.
Animation workers voted 87% in favor of ratifying the new contract.
WIA returns to Annecy 2022 to host a series of panels, a fireside chat, and the first-ever Stories x Women initiative.
20th Television Animation chose not to voluntarily recognize the unit, so the workers are filing petitions for union elections with the NLRB.
