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Avatar’s VFX Artists Prepare to Unionise
2023 has been a union-heavy year, and in the case of Disney, it’s seen the formation of entirely new unions. VFX artists at both Marvel Studios and Disney overall successfully unionized this year, in what some referred to as a “hot labor summer.” Turns out, it’s more of a hot labor year, because the team…
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Hollywood’s IATSE Votes to Ratify Its New Contract, But Controversy Remains
After simmering tensions between studios and one of the biggest unions in the industry that threatened potential strike action last month, IATSE has ratified a new union contract after months of negotiations. But the vote also exposes just how divided IATSE’s members were over the new deal, which critics say doesn’t go far enough in…
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Chaotic Vigilante App Citizen Might Get a Union, and the Bosses Aren’t Happy
Employees of Citizen, the app that dispatches rogue nightcrawlers to broadcast crime scenes, are unionizing. As Vice first reported, a National Labour Relations Board filing shows that 69 employees from the on-brand “Central Ops Department” have petitioned to join Communications Workers of America (CWA).