Huge Turnout For Animation Solidarity Rally Ahead Of AMPTP Negotiations (VIDEO)
Animation workers in Los Angeles are fired up as they prepare to take on the world’s biggest entertainment companies.
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Major Hollywood Unions And Guilds Issue Joint Statement Urging Studios To ‘Value And Respect’ Animation Workers
The statement comes ahead of negotiations between animation workers and studios for a new collective bargaining agreement.
Animation Worker Rally In Burbank Wants Cartoon Fans To Come Out And Show Support
Ahead of new contract negotiations with studios, The Animation Guild is holding a rally this weekend in Burbank.
Apple Studios Visual Effects Workers File For Election To Unionize With IATSE
The group of 17 workers is employed across Apple Studios shows and films such as ‘Government Cheese,’ ‘Surface,’ and ‘Outcome.’
Pixar Undertakes Biggest Layoffs In History, Hundreds To Be Let Go
Approximately 14% of the studio’s staff is being laid off.
An Industry Worker Explains Why The U.S. Animation Industry Is Collapsing
The U.S. animation industry might look bleak right now, but it could still get a lot worse.
DNEG To Lay Off Hundreds Of VFX Workers
Workers are bracing for layoffs to hit at the company’s studios in the U.K. and Canada.
Workers At Vancouver’s Icon Creative Studio Announce Plans To Unionize
With nearly 800 workers, Icon is one of Vancouver’s largest animation industry employers.
160 Production Workers Have Unionized At Dreamworks Animation
The workers will be covered under the Animation Guild and the Motion Picture Editors Guild.
New Survey Shows Japan’s Animation Workers Are Overworked, Underpaid, And Regularly Face Harassment
The study warns, “If things continue like this, the technology in the anime industry will eventually stagnate, and the industry itself may collapse.”
SAG-AFTRA Voice Actors Ratify TV Animation Contract With New AI Protections
Union members nationwide voted 95.52% to 4.48% in favor of the new deal.
Dreamworks Animation To Significantly Cut Staff In Coming Months (Exclusive)
Hundreds of Dreamworks staffers to be let go in the coming months.
Employees At ‘Call Of Duty’ Developer Activision Establish U.S.’s Largest Certified Video Game Union
A group of roughly 600 Activision employees is unionizing with the Communications Workers of America.
Sweet Victory For Nickelodeon Animation Workers As They Ratify A Groundbreaking New Contract
For the first time in TAG history, employees will now have access to three days of bereavement leave
Electronic Arts Lays Off 5% Of Its Global Workforce As Part Of Second Major Restructuring In Two Years
Eleven months after laying off roughly 800 workers, EA is letting go of another 670, canceling in-development games, and shuttering at least one studio.
DNEG Montreal Becomes The Company’s Second Canadian VFX Outfit To Unionize
IATSE organizers say that workers at DNEG Toronto have already filed for union certification and are waiting for the labor board confirmation.
Sony’s Playstation Laying Off 900 Workers, 8% Of Its Global Workforce
Some of the company’s biggest studios will be affected, including Insomniac, Naughty Dog, and Guerilla.
SAG-AFTRA, AMPTP Strike Tentative TV Animation Deal
The union described the agreement as a successor to its hard-fought 2020 contracts which expired in June of last year.
Production Workers At Dreamworks Animation And Flying Bark’s U.S. Office Move Towards Unionizing
The Animation Guild has asked both studios to voluntarily recognize their workers’ requests to join the union.
Paramount Hit By Mass Layoffs: 800 People To Lose Jobs
CEO Bob Bakish thanked the employees for helping to “advance [Paramount’s] mission of unleashing the power of content around the world.”
