Sixteen visual effects artists who work on pre-recorded digital shorts for “Saturday Night Live” have unionized with IATSE and won official recognition from series producer Broadway Video and NBCUniversal.
IATSE confirmed the development on Monday. The organizing drive by IATSE follows the union’s successful bid to organize “SNL” editors in October 2022. Those members ratified their first contract in May 2023. NBCUniversal recognized IATSE as the bargaining agent “after ‘SNL’ VFX workers presented signed authorization cards demonstrating 100% support for unionization,” IATSE said.
“SNL” staffers said union protections have become more important to them as the
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