A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize

Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by egypturnash on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:02AM (#25633015)

I have friends who are in the animation industry (which has been heavily unionized since the 50s) and they tell me the Union is constantly fighting with the studios over the studios trying to get more work out of them for less money.

I have friends in the visual effects industry (which has never been unionized) and their lives are full of stuff like effects houses that did work on award-winning films with huge budgets closing up without paying people because the studio skipped out on payments.

These are very similar fields in terms of skills. Both are mostly based in the same place. Both involve a lot of long hours working on stuff that flashes by in seconds. One has a union, one doesn’t. One is better off than the other.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by dagmx on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:30AM (#25633532)

Minor nitpick...the animation industry is only really unionized in LA. Outside of LA, the animation union dwindles dramatically and is close to non existent.

For example, Titmouse was the first studio in Canada to unionize and that was just in mid 2020.

The Bay area studios like Pixar aren't unionized either, even though their sister studio WDAS in LA is unionized.

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Re:A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize by egypturnash on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:10PM (#25638953)

Ooh, good point. I've heard some of the Asian animation industry is super bad about burning people out in just a few years.

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