Decades after lengthy negotiations, an intense social media campaign and its first rally, the Animation Guild has reached a new prospective agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).
The deal, announced on Friday, calls for a salary increase and “significant earnings for animation writers”, replaces a contract with New Media (which includes streaming platforms), adds Martin Luther King Jr. as a holiday and forms a Management Work Cooperative “will pave the way for union-covered remote work,” Guild said. It is unclear at this stage how many key issues have been raised. # NewDeal4Animation The social media campaign, which members began shortly before negotiations began on November 29 last year, is under consideration. AMPTP confirmed the deal on Friday.
According to the union, the agreement was reached on Friday. The proposed agreement will now be presented to members for a ratification vote to be held in late June.
“I am incredibly proud of the Animation Guild members who volunteered their time and energy with the negotiation committee,” said Steve Kaplan, TAG’s commercial representative, in a statement. “The proposals we have made with employers have focused on improving the working lives of our members and we have made significant progress towards achieving these goals. #NewDeal4Animation doesn’t stop there today, we will continue to fight for the rights and benefits our members deserve and ensure that all animation workers in the United States can use their collective voice to make similar changes.”
TAG conducts negotiations independently of the 13 West Coast locations covered by the IATSE Framework Agreement, whose last contract was ratified by delegates in November 2021, but generally shares some elements with this contract due to model sharing. TAG and other IATSE locations also share health and retirement plans; The new master agreement includes $370 million in these plans over the course of this three-year agreement.
Prior to negotiations, TAG members launched the hashtag #PayAnimationWriters to focus on minimum fees for animation writers and writers working on animation and live action for the Writers Guild of America. (WGA includes some animated works like writing the simpsons.) As part of this campaign, TAG said that its copywriters do not 26 to 66 percent less Free half-hour script per script for live-action WGA writers and a minimum of about $1,900 to $2,995 per week as staff writers on half-hour script series.
Guild members also launched the #NewDeal4Animation social media campaign, in which animation workers shared financial hardships and labor struggles on social media, reflecting IATSE’s previous solidarity efforts this year. Like #IASolidarity and #IALivingWages, the #NewDeal4Animation campaign focused on the bread theme, drawing attention on Twitter through memes and GIFs.
In this round of conversations, local colorists also indicated that they were seeking equal pay for employees participating in the “animation” section of the TAG contract, such as character/project design, background layout, and background painting, who receive the same payment. scale minimum. “Color design is the one exception, which has degraded in the inks and archaic inks department at a minimum rate of 14.4%,” the TAG petition said in a statement. The same petition states that scheduling and payment is an important issue for storytelling members, and completing unit payment was a priority for time directors. Prior to the negotiations, the GAT signaled that, as other IATSE venues did in their negotiations earlier this year, it demanded higher compensation for flow projects in this round of negotiations.
During the long period of negotiations, industry figures, including Spider man: In the Spider-Man poem Writer and Producer Phil Lord, nightmare alley Directed by Guillermo del Toro knight of bojak Developer Rafael Bob-Waxberg, adam destroys everything Developer Adam Conver and corpse Bride Writer John August came out in support of the TAG negotiations.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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