Originally published at: Marvel's VFX artists vote to unionize | Boing Boing
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Thank the gods!
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FIFY!
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Workers of the world untie unite!
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That covers 32 in-house vfx workers. The thousands of third-party studio workers are not included. Btw, that’s not the first vfx union. ILM used to be covered by IATSE. Until they voted to leave the union.
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Is this common? Feels like conditions have to be incredibly bad for that to happen.
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It’s only a handful of people.
Yeah, but iirc so are the Starbuck stores and they haven’t been unanimous
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well, about six handfuls ( for the non-polydactyl at least )
nice to see disney also is moving in the same direction:
( edit: because i can’t math )
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How fitting that they took to heart the “ASSEMBLE!” battle cry.
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As a software developer for the animation industry, who was laid off at the beginning of summer due to the aforementioned strikes, all I can say is “about damn time!” This needs to be every animation/VFX studio. I’ve been through enough layoffs and bankruptcies, and seen enough artists get laid-off en-masse at the end of projects, to know that something needs to change. Once the industry’s current “moment” is over, I want IATSE or whoever’s willing to fight for the workers at these studios to stand ready to unionize more shops.
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