
EXCLUSIVE: About two dozen post-production employees at ShadowMachine, the animation studio at the back of Tuca & Bertie, Robotic Hen and BoJack Horseman, have unionized with the Movement Image Editors Guild.
The transfer was legitimate via a card-check procedure verified by way of a impartial 3rd birthday celebration. It marks the Editors Guild’s 5th organizing win in animation within the pasts 4 years, following a success efforts at Bento Field, Nickelodeon and in other places.
“We’re happy to welcome the employees at ShadowMachine to the Guild circle of relatives,” mentioned Alan Heim, president of the Editors Guild, IATSE Native 700. “Animation performs an enormous and rising function within the leisure trade, and too incessantly the gifted craftspeople who create it don’t revel in the similar union protections bestowed on their live-action opposite numbers. Our guild is operating arduous to modify that, and we’re excited that ShadowMachine is a part of the tale.”
Manufacturing employees at ShadowMachine voted to unionize with the Animation Guild, IATSE Native 839, in Would possibly.
The Editors Guild represents just about 8,900 U.S. post-production pros operating in live-action and animated movement photos.