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Workers At Austin’s Powerhouse Animation Studios Vote Overwhelmingly In Favor Of Joining The Animation Guild

Powerhouse is the first Texas animation studio to join a union.

A new round of talks has been scheduled for mid-September.

Animation workers in Los Angeles are fired up as they prepare to take on the world’s biggest entertainment companies.

The statement comes ahead of negotiations between animation workers and studios for a new collective bargaining agreement.

Ahead of new contract negotiations with studios, The Animation Guild is holding a rally this weekend in Burbank.

The group of 17 workers is employed across Apple Studios shows and films such as ‘Government Cheese,’ ‘Surface,’ and ‘Outcome.’

The workers will be covered under the Animation Guild and the Motion Picture Editors Guild.

Union members nationwide voted 95.52% to 4.48% in favor of the new deal.

A group of roughly 600 Activision employees is unionizing with the Communications Workers of America.

For the first time in TAG history, employees will now have access to three days of bereavement leave

IATSE and Hollywood Basic Crafts will jointly negotiate with the AMPTP on a new Motion Picture Pension and Health Plan .

Workers in Canada continue to gain momentum in their efforts to organize the country’s animation industry.

Workers at James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment follow in-house professionals at Marvel and Disney in seeking IATSE representation.

TAG says the studio’s decision was influenced by a recent NLRB ruling regarding production workers at Walt Disney Animation Studios.

This is the first time that remote workers have attempted to unionize with TAG, and the organization hopes others will join them.

The tremendous breakthrough hails a new dawn for vfx workers in Canada.

Virginia becomes the fifth state in which TAG will represent animation industry workers.

This is the third group of Disney employees to vote in favor of unionizing in the last three months.

Wildbrain is the third Canadian studio to unionize with IATSE, joining Titmouse’s Vancouver unit and game developer Anemone Hug Interactive.

Workers began organizing earlier this year, when the studio laid off around 100 employees, 9% of its workforce.