The Animation Guild
[2][3] The full name of the organization is The Animation Guild and Affiliated Optical Electronic and Graphic Arts, Local 839 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations/Canadian Labour Congress.Terrytoons hired students from New Rochelle High School as scabs, and Paul Terry outlasted strikers with a "large backlog of unreleased films".[22][4][23] In November of the same year, Nickelodeon Animation Studios signed a collective bargaining agreement with the union for the first time, bringing in workers from Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants.[1] The following year, Guild members ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with major animation companies, which lasted until August 2006.[26][27] Sideletter N entered into the collective bargaining agreement with the Guild, in 2015, outlined improved working conditions for streaming media.[31] Animators who worked on Rick and Morty and Solar Opposites filed a petition, in February 2022, for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board so they could join the guild.[32][33] Previously, in September 2014, the crew of Rick & Morty ratified a new labor agreement with the Guild, following a successful organizing effort.To supervise the Guild's affairs, every three years the membership elects a sixteen-person Executive Board by secret mail ballot.The Animation Guild negotiates and enforces collective bargaining agreements, or CBAs, with companies employing persons under its jurisdiction.The one-time initiation fee consists of two weeks' minimum scale wages for the job category in which the applicant has been hired.