Cartoon Brew

Italian Industry Rallies Around Zerocalcare, DogHead, Movimenti After Right-Wing Senator Offers His 2 Cents On Anonymous Labor Allegations

ASIFA Italia, ANICA, and Cartoon Italia backed the creator and studios behind Netflix's 'My 2 Cents' after anonymous labor ...
TheWrap

‘Cartoon Janitors’ Strike Back: Animation Guild Members Open Up About Their Fight for Better Pay and Respect

From top left, storyboard artist Sammy Savos, "Infinity Train" creator Owen Dennis, and background painter Thomas Zenteno. Right, a painting by Zenteno. As lengthy talks between The Animation Guild ...

Netflix Production Workers Ratify Contract With Animation Guild

Feature animation production workers at Netflix have ratified their first contract with The Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839) ...
Cartoon Brew

Netflix Animation Production Workers Ratify First Union Contract After Years Of Organizing

Netflix Animation Studios (NAS) production workers have ratified their first union contract with The Animation Guild, adding another organizing victory to animation’s increasingly unionized production ...
Variety

Animation Writers Hope to Close Pay Gap With Their Live-Action Counterparts

The Animation Guild is gearing up for its contract negotiations next week, with animation writers looking to see a significant boost in pay as part of their new deal with studios. Animation writers ...
Directors Guild of America

Hollywood Unions, Guilds Stand With Animation Ahead of The Animation Guild’s Negotiations with Studios

Los Angeles, CA —The American Federation of Musicians (AFM), Directors Guild of America (DGA), International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), International Brotherhood of Electrical ...
The Hollywood Reporter

The Animation Guild Notches Organizing Wins at Netflix, DreamWorks

Multiple union drives launched in 2025 have paid off for the union, which had its latest victory at the National Labor Relations Board on Dec. 30. By Katie Kilkenny Enterprise Reporter, TV & Labor ...
Yahoo

Women in Animation Talk Solutions to Labor Shortage at Annecy

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Speaking on Monday at the 6 th Women in Animation (WIA) Summit at the Annecy Animation Festival, Chris Mack, director, Grow ...
The Hollywood Reporter

DreamWorks Animation Production Workers Vote to Join the Animation and Editors Guilds

The IATSE Locals have collectively organized 160 workers, from production assistants to post productions supervisors, at the 'Kung Fu Panda 4' studio. By Katie Kilkenny Enterprise Reporter, TV & Labor ...
Yahoo

Animation Guild Organizer Outlines Renewed Push to Build Labor Power

The Animation Guild has been on a roll. One key union staffer during this push (though he maintains his role “pales in comparison” to the workers driving these campaigns) has been TAG organizer Ben ...
Los Angeles Times

Hollywood’s animation workers are unionizing at a rapid pace. Here’s why

Em Hagen stood before a window on the fifth floor of their Burbank office and waved at what they hoped was the right silver Toyota Prius zipping down Bob Hope Drive in October. Hagen, 27, was trying ...