The guild, part of IATSE, is aggressively expanding efforts to target staffers in new roles and at companies beyond Los Angeles County in a bid to strengthen leverage with studios. By Katie Kilkenny ...

Production management workers at Walt Disney Animation Studios have officially ratified their first union contract with the studio. This agreement comes after an intense organizing effort that saw a ...

Nickelodeon Animation Studios has agreed to voluntarily recognize 177 production workers as members of the Animation Guild, avoiding the need for an NLRB election. The Animation Guild — also known as ...

The Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839) staged what it called a “solidarity walk” around Walt Disney Studios in Burbank with dozens of the studio’s animation production workers in protest of Disney’s ...

In an initial announcement of the organizing effort, staffers went public with complaints of inadequate pay. By Katie Kilkenny Labor & Media Reporter About a month after the IATSE local filed for a ...

Animation is booming as never before in Spain’s Canary Island of Tenerife, boosted by extraordinary tax incentives. Arguably, no other site in Europe is currently transforming so quickly into an ...

Universal Filmed Entertainment Group has its head in the cloud — and now it’s going to push its production teams there. The company has embarked on a major multiyear strategy to move its studios’ film ...

Production workers at Titmouse Los Angeles are the latest industry workers who are filing to join The Animation Guild and begin collective bargaining for their first union contract. Who exactly is ...

Skydance Animation has appointed Bruce Anderson (Spellbound, Ferdinand, Rio 2) as head of production. In the newly created role, Anderson will oversee production planning for all animation production ...

Production staff at Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. Animation are moving to unionize, with workers at the Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiaries banding together to begin collective bargaining. The ...

Production workers at The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad! have filed to join the Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839, and begin collective bargaining for their first union contract. “Together, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Fred Seibert, a cable TV marketing pioneer who went on to become a producer of a number of successful animated series, has launched a new production entity called FredFilms. The company has ...