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Disney VFX Workers Vote Unanimously To Unionize (variety.com) 35

Posted by BeauHD from the historic-milestones dept.
Jazz Tangcay writes via Variety: Visual effects workers at Walt Disney Pictures have voted unanimously in favor of unionizing with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) in an election held by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The 13-0 vote comes just weeks after VFX workers at Marvel Studios voted to unionize with IATSE and comes amid the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, as the guilds continue to seek fair contracts with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

The 18 crew members who work in-house at Walt Disney Studios who were eligible voters seek fair compensation for all hours worked, adequate health care and retirement benefits. The unionizing VFX workers are responsible for creating the special effects across the studio's catalog, which includes "Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin," "The Lion King" and more, are also seeking the same rights and protections afforded to their unionized coworkers who are already represented by IATSE. [...] With the workers behind the vote, the union's next step is to engage in collective bargaining negotiations with Disney execs to draft a contract that addresses the workers' needs. Negotiation dates have yet to be set.
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  • At the very least, they stood up for principle.

    • At the very least, they stood up for principle.

      and will have no work as long as the actors strike still on

    • It's ultra high skilled labor in a high profit industry. They'll be fine.
      • Some of it does require a bit of know-how, but these days the software does a lot of the work. I've used Adobe Premiere and After Effects before and even without having a lot of experience could make some decent stuff. It's not without skill, but you can find tutorials on YouTube for creating your own version of almost any major film effect. A lot of making it look good is creating detailed masks for every single frame, which is more monotonous than anything else. Usually you can get the software to help wi

    • More likely they got freaked out about AI possibly replacing them or swiping their content.

  • I suppose it might actually be better to be a small group. You aren't threatening the company existentially. At first I thought that with the layoffs Disney had earlier in the year, this was risky. But it's relatively contained. Having said that, though, there'd better be valuable work in the hopper if they hope to have leverage.

    • It's not. Unions don't threaten companies, they threaten billionaires. But there's a good reason why it's so small. Decades ago business owners made it so individual job sites unionized to keep the unions smaller and easier to bully.
      • It's not like unions are perfect but companies' reactions to them tend to be downright childish.
      • A single union is just as awful (or probably worse) than none at all. Europe is far better where workers have their choice of several unions or trade organizations that they can join. Frankly I wouldn't want to join any organization where some people I don't know personally and who are probably thousands of miles away are deciding when I can or can't work. If I have no choice but to join, it really just means a middleman that's skimming off of my pay check for the privilege of doing just that. I'm sure ther

    • You aren't threatening the company existentially.

      The fact that you think Unions are about this points to everything which is wrong with Unions.

  • The people that won the Nobel prize for physics can show how they were ionized in the first place.

  • I'll bet old Walt is spinning in his grave after his depositions to the McCarthy Hearings about his staff
  • I wonder how Disney owned ILM will respond to this -- those folks are overdue for a unionization as well

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