The Animation Guild Unveils Officer And Executive Board Election Results
Three of five TAG officers won re-election, including Steve Kaplan, Jeanette Moreno King, and Paula Spence.
Three of five TAG officers won re-election, including Steve Kaplan, Jeanette Moreno King, and Paula Spence.
The workers are the second N.Y.-based group to do so, after Titmouse workers voted to unionize in January of this year.
Animation workers voted 87% in favor of ratifying the new contract.
After months of negotiations, animation workers in L.A. have reached a new labor agreement with animated film and tv producers.
Twenty-eight workers at Activision Blizzard’s Raven Software have become the first of the company’s 10,000 employees to unionize.
Workers at the Activision Blizzard subsidiary Raven say they’re still in favor of unionizing despite the company’s pleas.
Pre- and post-production employees won union recognition through a card-check agreement.
Oasis animators voted to unionize in 2019, and will now be joined by comp, rigging, scene planning, storyboards, and layout and color workers.
Shadowmachine L.A. is the fifth studio in recent months where production workers have voted in favor of unionization.
Solar Opposites production workers are only the second such group to be represented by The Animation Guild in recent history.
Stop-motion animation workers are anonymously sharing salaries and horror stories about working in the industry.
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.
Disney and Warnermedia say they are unwilling to voluntarily recognize these workers.
The talks will pick up where they broke off on December 3.
The workers at the “Call of Duty” developer are now taking their fight to the National Labor Relations Board.
Titmouse workers are the first members of the NYC animation industry to join a union in over three decades.
A veteran anime producer and character designer discuss what effects unionization might have and why it is slow in coming in Japan.
No date has been set for the continuation of the talks.