Members of The Animation Guild (TAG), IATSE Local 839, are facing unprecedented levels of unemployment despite animation outperforming on screens and in merchandise sales. Companies made poor decisions in the streaming wars and now animation workers are paying the price. We kept content alive during the COVID lockdown yet we are now losing our healthcare, homes, and livelihoods.

How did this happen?

The new CEOs, put in place after corporate reshuffles, have axed animated projects, shortened schedules, and outsourced union work to cheap labor. They are squeezing budgets, leaving us overworked and without job security.

Now they are investing in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) systems designed to siphon creativity out of our content and shrink crews even further.

TAG is currently in negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), and we are fighting to get the best deal possible for animation workers. We know how to save our industry; we are the people who make it so profitable.

What are we asking for?

Fair wages and job security so we can pay rent, provide for our families, and plan for the future.

Common-sense guardrails around the use of GenAI to make sure the content you and your family enjoy is made by humans.

Protecting animation jobs at Union studios so we can continue contributing to our local economies.

TAG members deserve a fair deal that sustains our industry with livable wages and job security. We cannot accept a contract that doesn’t address our needs. We are ready to fight as hard as we need to and stand together as long as it takes.

Do you stand with us?

I STAND WITH ANIMATION!