Nickelodeon Animation Studios Voluntarily Recognizes TAG As Production Workers’ Bargaining Rep
Nickelodeon Animation Studios’ production workers now represent the largest bargaining unit of production workers to organize under TAG.
Nickelodeon Animation Studios’ production workers now represent the largest bargaining unit of production workers to organize under TAG.
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.
A bargaining unit of 100 production workers have joined animation workers and writers at the studio who were already covered by TAG.
The workers are the second N.Y.-based group to do so, after Titmouse workers voted to unionize in January of this year.
Support for reform is growing as pro-animation WGA member Raphael Bob-Waksberg campaigns to join the organization’s board.
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.
20th Television Animation chose not to voluntarily recognize the unit, so the workers are filing petitions for union elections with the NLRB.
After months of negotiations, animation workers in L.A. have reached a new labor agreement with animated film and tv producers.
After meeting with labor leaders, the president and vice-president tweeted their support for the organizers and their cause.
Pre- and post-production employees won union recognition through a card-check agreement.
Solar Opposites production workers are only the second such group to be represented by The Animation Guild in recent history.
It was the first major rally held by The Animation Guild in nearly 40 years.
Negotiations on a new contract have gone on for an “unprecedented” 12 days, but still no deal.
The Titmouse unionization effort comes just weeks after production workers on “Rick & Morty” and “Solar Opposites” announced that they were doing the same.
The decision to not present the animated short Oscar live sends “a message that some artistic endeavors are less valuable than others,” says The Animation Guild.
Disney and Warnermedia say they are unwilling to voluntarily recognize these workers.
The talks will pick up where they broke off on December 3.