The Artists Win! Disney, Pixar, and Lucasfilm To Pay $100 Million in Wage-Theft Lawsuit
The artists win!
The legal teams of Disney and Dreamworks are almost as creative as the artists who make their films.
While Disney, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Dreamworks are still fighting against their employees, Sony has reached a settlement with the animation workers.
This is a significant victory for the hard-working members of the feature animation community.
Take a few minutes to understand the lawsuit that industry artists have filed against the big American studios and why it matters.
A judge rule that animation artists can continue a case against studios which allegedly suppressed wages for decades through fraud.
The major studios filed a motion last Friday in federal court asking a judge to dismiss the antitrust wage-fixing lawsuit that had been filed by animation industry employees.
The wage-theft scheme operated by major American animation studios continues to grow with no end in sight.
The wage-theft scheme run by big animation studios is finally receiving some mainstream media attention after a significant piece was published today by Bloomberg News.