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| Organizing is a key piece of preserving union wages, benefits and working conditions. |
http://deadline.com/2017/10/iatse-pickets-mustang-movie-wins-contract-focus-features-1202188155/
Other recent organizing successes:
September 2017 - Vice Media employees organize with WGA East and Motion Picture Editors Guild - IATSE Local 700. After beginning talks May 1, Vice Media recently agreed to recognize the WGA East and the Motion Picture Editors Guild and work in good faith toward negotiating a contract.
https://www.editorsguild.com/Organize/Organizing-News/ArticleID/305/Vice-Employees-Go-Union
http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/vice-media-unionization-writers-guild-editors-guild-1202565117/
April 2017 - Crew of NBC's Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge decides that they have had enough and decide to take a stand for benefits, wages, and better working conditions. After 12 hours of negotiation, a deal was achieved and the crew went back to work.
http://deadline.com/2017/04/spartan-ultimate-team-challenge-iatse-contract-with-nbcs-after-1-day-strike-1202077241/
Taking action to better your working conditions can be daunting and scary, but it is protected by federal law! Workers acting together can achieve wages and benefits that no individual can secure.
Read more about your right to organize at the Animation Guild website:
https://animationguild.org/about-the-guild/organizing/
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When you have time, please address the 'Open Letter to the Animation Community' as well as its call for The Animation Guild to add language to the constitution that states that it can “censure, fine, suspend or expel any member of the guild who shall, in the opinion of the Executive Board, be found guilty of any act, omission, or conduct which is prejudicial to the welfare of the guild.”
This feels like a watershed moment of sorts -- a big step forward for the industry and what it deems 'acceptable' and/or acceptable to ignore.
Thanks for your work!
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