Spicy Thoughts on The Animation Guild's Tentative Agreement
im the hoopla guy in spongebob wont shut up and gets hit with a brick. originally published on my instagram, Nov 29
sources (in order of it being referenced)
TA definitions:
https://www.seiu99.org/getacquainted/labor-lingo-defined/
https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/faculty-staff/labor-and-employee-relations/Pages/tentative-agreements.aspx
Official TAG negotiations information: https://www.tagnegotiations2024.com/post/the-animation-guild-reaches-tentative-agreement-with-amptp
https://www.tagnegotiations2024.com/ratification
https://www.tagnegotiations2024.com/faq
Labor Notes articles on a democratic union TA:
https://labornotes.org/2023/08/open-bargaining-start-early-and-build
https://labornotes.org/2018/10/getting-fair-contract-vote
https://labornotes.org/2024/09/hard-no-boeing-workers-react-tentative-agreement
https://www.tagnegotiations2024.com/faq
1976: "Animation Animosity: Union Tags 6 Shops Off Limits" by Richard Stehr, Back Stage West Magazine, Jan 30, 1976
1979: "Cartoonist Union Darts Dues Dodgers" Variety, Dec 5 1979
1972: “Coast Unions Find Their Members ‘Indifferent’ to Quorum Needs” Variety, Oct 25 1927
http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/peg-board-41-years-ago.html
https://www.wga.org/news-events/news/press/pbs-writers-reach-tentative-agreement-with-management
1988: ”Cartoon Writers Hope to Ink Union Contract"// Bates, James Los Angeles Times; Oct 11, 1988
1983: “Animation film writers must stay with IA: NLRB” Hollywood Reporter, April 1983
2006: “Eyeing a little more green; In a land of such story-driven blockbusters as `Shrek' and `Nemo,' animation writers are on a quest to capture the same benefits bestowed upon their live- action peers.”Fernandez, Jay A., Los Angeles Times, Aug 20, 2006
