UPDATED, 5:30 PM: Some 17 months after unionizing, manufacturing administration staffers at Walt Disney Animation Studios have ratified their first labor contract. The vote performed by IATSE‘s Animation Guild was 93% in favor of sealing the deal, with 96% of eligible voters casting ballots.
The contract supplies for manufacturing employees to obtain protections together with pension and well being advantages, together with a 24% wage improve for manufacturing managers, a 29% hike for manufacturing supervisors and a 35% bounce for manufacturing coordinators, who’re the lowest-paid employees within the unit.
Examine Disney Animation Studios’ effort to unionize with IATSE Native 839 beneath.
PREVIOUSLY, November 1, 2023: Manufacturing employees at Walt Disney Animation Studios have gone union.
Eligible staffers on the toon studio voted overwhelmingly to be represented by IATSE and the Animation Guild for collective bargaining. The latter, IATSE Native 839, mentioned the vote was 93% “sure” on an eye catching 96% turnout. Solely 5 members voted no.
“Congratulations to the manufacturing employees at Disney Characteristic Animation!” the Animation Guild tweeted. Right this moment, they voted in an election to be represented by @IATSE and TAG. With 96% voter turnout, 93% voted sure!!! Let’s have a good time!”
The union will rep about 5 dozen manufacturing coordinators, manufacturing managers and manufacturing supervisors. The staffers revealed their intent to unionize again in March.
Overseen by the Nationwide Labor Relations Board, the Disney Animation Studios election started in mid-October through secret mail-in poll, and the outcomes have been revealed immediately. Different employees together with managers, confidential staff, guards, and supervisors should not a part of the deal.
The vote follows current profitable unionize efforts by VFX employees at Disney company sibling Marvel Studios and manufacturing employees at Nickelodeon.
