160 Production Workers Have Unionized At Dreamworks Animation
The workers will be covered under the Animation Guild and the Motion Picture Editors Guild.
The workers will be covered under the Animation Guild and the Motion Picture Editors Guild.
Union members nationwide voted 95.52% to 4.48% in favor of the new deal.
A group of roughly 600 Activision employees is unionizing with the Communications Workers of America.
For the first time in TAG history, employees will now have access to three days of bereavement leave
IATSE and Hollywood Basic Crafts will jointly negotiate with the AMPTP on a new Motion Picture Pension and Health Plan .
Workers in Canada continue to gain momentum in their efforts to organize the country’s animation industry.
Workers at James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment follow in-house professionals at Marvel and Disney in seeking IATSE representation.
TAG says the studio’s decision was influenced by a recent NLRB ruling regarding production workers at Walt Disney Animation Studios.
This is the first time that remote workers have attempted to unionize with TAG, and the organization hopes others will join them.
The tremendous breakthrough hails a new dawn for vfx workers in Canada.
Virginia becomes the fifth state in which TAG will represent animation industry workers.
This is the third group of Disney employees to vote in favor of unionizing in the last three months.
Wildbrain is the third Canadian studio to unionize with IATSE, joining Titmouse’s Vancouver unit and game developer Anemone Hug Interactive.
Workers began organizing earlier this year, when the studio laid off around 100 employees, 9% of its workforce.
IATSE is asking DNEG workers across the country to fill out in IATSE VFX Union Support Cards.
The actor’s union SAG-AFTRA could strike against video game companies if they can’t come to an agreement on the use of artificial intelligence in game production.
In a historic first for the industry, dozens of vfx workers at Marvel Studios are demanding union representation.
The fight to get animation writers included among the ranks of the Writers Guild of America is moving forward – at least on the east coast.
This marks the first time that TAG has organized outside of the continental United States.
According to The Animation Guild, Nickelodeon’s lawyers are pushing to divide workers based on job title to unnecessarily prolong the unionization process.