WB Animation & CN Production Workers Attempt to Unionize

[velmablake]

"Dozens of production workers at Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network have gone public with their attempt to unionize with The Animation Guild.



Sixty-six staffers at Warner Bros. Animation and 22 at Cartoon Network filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday and simultaneously requested voluntary recognition from management at the Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiaries. Collectively, the group includes workers in roles like production manager, digital production assistant, IT technician, production coordinator, production assistant, design production coordinator, assistant production manager and senior assistant production manager."

Full article:
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wb-animation-cartoon-network-production-workers-unionization-effort-1235540007/

[wileyk209]

Yeah, I talk about Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios moving into the same new building in this vlog with me as Sam Valentino, the private toon detective fox, talking about Warner Bros. Discovery and the Walt Disney Company's current hardships. (And on their centennials, no less!)

I also bring up all the cancelled Scooby-Doo projects, complete with a cameo by Scooby himself (again played by me).
At least the "Barbie" movie is so far being a box-office smash, and so that may be a big help in WB-Discovery recovering financially.

[vakanai]

Would they have been able to save all those Scooby productions that got canned cause of Zaslav's tax write-offs if they had been a union before?
Even if they couldn't have, still approve of this. Got a lot more faith in animators than in creatively and soulfully bankrupt execs.

[Ark]

A union definitely could've changed things. The problem is, WB is still like 50 billion in debt. Bluth Studios went bankrupt after unionization, that's the danger. I suppose if workers can't be paid fairly, a company really isn't financially feasible though. That's both sides of the argument in a nutshell.

[Ark]

Jul 23, 2023 17:08:37 GMT -5 wileyk209 said:

Yeah, I talk about Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios moving into the same new building in this vlog with me as Sam Valentino, the private toon detective fox, talking about Warner Bros. Discovery and the Walt Disney Company's current hardships. (And on their centennials, no less!)

I also bring up all the cancelled Scooby-Doo projects, complete with a cameo by Scooby himself (again played by me).
At least the "Barbie" movie is so far being a box-office smash, and so that may be a big help in WB-Discovery recovering financially.

Yes, I've heard Barbie is in the billion dollar club, so that should at least help get interest payments under control. If that's net income, a billion should stave off issues for a while.