More Than 1,500 Sign Pledge To Fight For WGA Coverage Of Animation Writers
Support for reform is growing as pro-animation WGA member Raphael Bob-Waksberg campaigns to join the organization’s board.
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.
Titmouse workers are the first members of the NYC animation industry to join a union in over three decades.
No date has been set for the continuation of the talks.
The union’s negotiations with employers are due to end today, December 2.
The proportion at union studios in L.A. has risen from 28% in 2019 to 31.6% this month, even as women have left the wider workforce in droves.
Cinemas floundered in the West while the box office rebounded in the East. Then there’s Quibi…
A watershed moment in Canadian animation history.