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Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Walt Disney Animation Studios Staffers Ratify First Union Contract
UPDATED, 5:30 PM: Some 17 months after unionizing, production management staffers at Walt Disney Animation Studios have ratified their first labor contract. The vote conducted by IATSE's Animation Guild was 93% in favor of sealing the deal, with 96% of eligible voters casting ballots. The contract provides for production workers to receive protections including pension and health benefits, along with a 24% wage increase for production managers, a 29% hike for production supervisors and a 35% jump for production coordinators, who are the lowest-paid workers in the unit. More from Deadline In 'Historic First,' Marvel Studios VFX Workers Vote Unanimously To Unionize With IATSE Nickelodeon Production Workers Vote To Unionize With The Animation Guild Independent Writers' Caucus Adds 7 Board Members, Including 'Inside Out' Scribe Meg LeFauve & Former WGAW President Howard Rodman Read about Disney Animation Studios' effort to unionize with IATSE Local 839 below. PREVIOUSLY, November 1, 2023: Production workers at Walt Disney Animation Studios have gone union. Eligible staffers at the toon studio voted overwhelmingly to be represented by IATSE and the Animation Guild for collective bargaining. The latter, IATSE Local 839, said the vote was 93% 'yes' on an eye-catching 96% turnout. Only five members voted no. 'Congratulations to the production workers at Disney Feature Animation!' the Animation Guild tweeted. Today, they voted in an election to be represented by @IATSE and TAG. With 96% voter turnout, 93% voted yes!!! Let's celebrate!' The union will rep about five dozen production coordinators, production managers and production supervisors. The staffers revealed their intent to unionize back in March. Overseen by the National Labor Relations Board, the Disney Animation Studios election began in mid-October via secret mail-in ballot, and the results were revealed today. Other workers including managers, confidential employees, guards, and supervisors are not part of the deal. The vote follows recent successful unionize efforts by VFX workers at Disney corporate sibling Marvel Studios and production workers at Nickelodeon. Best of Deadline 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys & More 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
Associated Press
23-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Writers of 'Conclave,' 'Say Nothing' Win 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film 'Conclave' and the series 'Say Nothing' won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards on the evening of Saturday, Feb. 22. Selection committee chair Howard Rodman announced the winners at a black-tie ceremony at USC's Town and Gown ballroom. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: From left to right: Peter Straughan (screenwriter, Conclave), Dean of the USC Libraries Melissa Just, Joshua Zetumer (screenwriter, Say Nothing), Scripter Selection Committee Chair Howard Rodman (Photo: Business Wire) The Scripter Awards recognize the year's most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series. Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for 'Conclave.' In accepting the award, Straughan said 'Adaptation is a really strange process, you're very much the servant of two masters. In a way it's an act of betrayal of one master for the other.' He joked that 'You start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,' crediting author Robert Harris for being 'so kind, so generous, so open throughout.' In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode 'The People in the Dirt' from the limited series 'Say Nothing,' which Zetumer adapted from Keefe's nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland. Zetumer referenced this year's extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying 'Projects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USC's Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.' Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. 'If ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,' she said, 'you have only to go to a library. There you will find shelf upon shelf of books where authors have poured their knowledge, their stories, their creativity on page after a library is not the very best of what society has to offer, I don't know what is.' Earlier in the evening, Howard Rodman accepted the Ex Libris Award, which honors exceptional commitment to the USC Libraries. Rodman has been the chair of the Scripter Selection Committee for the past twelve years. Presenting him with the award was celebrated novelist Walter Mosley who credited Rodman for being an influence on thousands of writers, producers, editors, directors, and 'a gardener of revelation for those of us who didn't know where we were going or even when we had arrived.' SOURCE: USC Libraries Copyright Business Wire 2025. PUB: 02/23/2025 02:11 AM/DISC: 02/23/2025 02:11 AM
