Animation Guild’s Negotiations for Higher Pay Pushed to 2022

This previous October noticed the Worldwide Alliance of Theatrical Stage Workers (IATSE) threaten to go on strike for higher residuals and protections for on-set breaks. Although issues got here to a tenuous settlement, members of IATSE Native 839, aka The Animation Guild (TAG), have been separate from these discussions. Now of their in their very own quest to make sure that animation writers obtain truthful pay for his or her works, their efforts have been briefly placed on pause.

Guild director Alexandra Drosu confirmed to Deadline on Friday that an settlement wasn’t reached, so negotiations between TAG and the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP) will proceed after the vacations have ended. Talks started on Monday and prolonged by the week, with the expectation issues would resolve earlier than the weekend ended. Beforehand, TAG’s settlement with AMPTP had expired again in July and later prolonged to the top of October.

Of their negotiations for a brand new contract, TAG have been taking to Twitter to advocate for animation writers to be paid on par with the writers of reside motion productions and spotlight the pay disparity between the 2 mediums. Presently, animation writers have a weekly minimal of $2,064 (until it’s a present lined by the Writers Guild like The Simpsons), whereas reside motion writers’ pay falls someplace between $4,063 and $5,185. For those who comply with anybody who works in animation on social media, together with excessive profile creators like Gravity Falls’ Alex Hirsch and DC Tremendous Hero Ladies’ Lauren Faust, likelihood is you’ve seen them ask for followers to point out their help with the hashtag #NewDealforAnimation.

Within the wake of their discussions for higher pay, TAG has identified how animation managed to keep away from coming to an entire standstill like the remainder of Hollywood throughout the first 12 months of the pandemic. “We’re a precious a part of the business,” wrote TAG in their pinned tweet. “We do the identical work as our live-action counterparts, and it’s time our pay mirrored that…on the finish of the day, we’re all doing the identical job.”

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