The Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839) and AMPTP reached a tentative deal for a new three-year contact, the Guild has confirmed.
TAG, which represents an estimated 5,000 artists, technicians, writers and production workers in the animation industry, began bargaining with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Aug. 12 and have continued intermittently since then. The Master Agreement expired in August but was extended while bargaining was underway.
As with Hollywood’s other recent labor negotiations including the WGA and SAG-AFTRA bargaining that led to last year’s historic double strike, a central issue for the Animation Guild was Gen AI
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