We Have a Deal: AMPTP reaches a Tentative 3-Year Deal With the Animation Guild

Welcome Back to Production.ink for Issue #14. In this issue, we are departing a bit from our normal format by doing a short report on the new Animation Guild deal followed by a round-up of relevant news since issue #13 as well as our usual job changes. Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers!

For all intents and purposes, our industry "season" of labor unrest is now officially over with news of the new three year deal between the AMPTP (the industry negotiating entity) and IATSE Local 839 (the Animation Guild). The new tentative deal includes increases to PH&W funds, wage improvements, addresses artificial intelligence and provides some level of writer staffing protections. On that last point, we have learned that the new deal mirrors the WGA in terms of staffing minimums for writers.

No details have yet emerged on the AI protections agreed to, but one suspects that it will also mirror the WGA on writers and illustrators. AI is obviously much more of a concern for the Animation Guild as that technology is more easily adapted to the animation format.

We will give you more information on all aspects of the new deal as we get them.

-Production.Ink

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Thanks for reading. See you soon. - The Production.ink team

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