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More never ending bullsh*t from The Animation Guild
Man, I read this and couldn't believe it. A rally for the creatives to unify authored by Steve Hulett the business rep of The Animation Guild, the union for the animation industry in LA.
Check this out...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Creatives Unite!
The current plight of visual effects artists is part of the Great Grinding of working artists (and others) in the 2st century.
Can unions save the creative class?
Newspapers are dying. Musicians and writers can't get paid. Maybe it's time for creatives to really organize ...
In decline: America's creative class — artists, writers, musicians, architects, those part of the media, the fine arts, publishing, TV and other fields — faced with an unstable landscape marked by technological shifts, a corporate culture of downsizing, and high unemployment.
So is it time for artists to strap on a hard hat? Maybe unions or artists' guilds can serve and protect an embattled creative class. With musicians typically operating without record labels, journalists increasingly working as freelancers as newspapers shed staff, and book publishing beginning what looks like a period of compression, unions might take some of the risk and sting out of our current state of creative destruction. ...
If you work in the union biz, you eventually figure out that artists in unionized studios get slammed around just like their counterparts elsewhere. The difference is that some of the slamming you can DO something about. Grievances can get filed. Phone calls can be made. Studio visits can calm things down.
In the time I've been here, TAG has organized studios, filed grievances, and worked to raise awareness about the usefulness and utility of labor unions. We've had non-union artists keep us at arm's length, then call us for help when their non-union studio (that they thought was going to last forever) rolled over and died, taking several weeks of employees' salary and vacation pay with it.
When things like that happen, you never give people the cold shoulder or the straight arm, because you know that you need every ally you can muster, and if you turn somebody away you risk making an enemy. Because it's 2013, and labor unions understand that the wolves are at the gates.
Posted by Steve Hulett at 11:13 PM
http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/ ... unite.html
Re: More never ending bullsh*t from The Animation Guild
I've tried to stay civil with what I post on AN for more than 14 years now but it sure is a difficult thing to do when this kind of crap is spewed.
Where the hell is the Guild on AN?
See them anywhere?
Where were these colossal hypocrites during the years we were running AN Night?
Where were they when we were rallying for an April 1 day of unity for artists when they stopped showing up?
Where were they during the debate we had on October 21 2011?
Where were they all these years when we've been admonishing over and over again UNITY?
And now they want to unify independents?!?!
These guys have dragged our good names through the mud for years and years. They called us the enemy. They've mocked us and ridiculed us and slandered us and now WTF is up with this?
Here's what they think of us brothers and sisters...
Liars and cowards. Their "can't change law mentality". Now that their entire side of the industry is collapsing, now they send out a call for unity.
They suck so much they have no idea how much they suck.
I've lost so much faith in these people even the time and energy it takes to type this is a waste.
It's too late you lamebrains. Take your propaganda, go home and shove it. The damage is done.
Independent content creation is the solution!
New business models that don't involve the Guild!
New leadership!
Re: More never ending bullsh*t from The Animation Guild
Wolves at the gate? I thought there were dogs barking at the parade???...wait, that was us. RUFF RUFF around the edges.
Brothers and sisters these people are pushing fear propaganda. Make no mistake and do not be fooled by this. We have SOOOOOO much power. More so then ever. Forget these poopoo heads. They obviously don't like themselves too much.
Re: More never ending bullsh*t from The Animation Guild
"because you know that you need every ally you can muster, and if you turn somebody away you risk making an enemy. "
They did a real swell job of making and keeping allies. Great work steve!
Hey, wait a second. Maybe because of those 350 UNION employees from dreamworks getting laid off and probably paying some lesser "honorable discharge fee" as opposed to the full $400 a year is gonna make a dent in the union's annual income. how will they be able to pay for the pretty little building. Will steve be able to waste his time sauntering around studios peeking into cubes. Better organize those artists and get them working again! these dues aren't gonna pay themselves.
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Empowering The Union
Published February 28 1999
http://www.animationnation.com/original ... -the-union
Anyone familiar with the history of the organized labor movement in the United States knows full well the enormous struggle that it took to get working men and women the most basic of rights that people today take for granted, union or non-union. Many of the pioneers of organized labor were massacred in cold blood by the very people who should have been protecting them. Before the existence of unions, the distribution of wealth in this country was absurdly lopsided. The living conditions of the average worker was, in many instances, horrific while the barons of industry lived in royal opulence.
Productivity always increases when morale is high and a positive working environment exists. A prosperous working class is healthy. It keeps the economy growing by giving the average American purchasing power that in turn, fuels continued productivity.
A strong union is essential if workers expect to share some of the benefits from the results of their labor. When a union loses strength, it loses the confidence of its membership and those adversarial individuals in high places who wouldn't mind making an extra buck if it meant that their employees lived in mud huts would do just that. A strong union is a buffer against employee abuse and social and economic regression.
I make the following comments with all due respect to the membership of the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Local 839 IATSE. The following remarks are solely my opinion.
If the Union expects to remain a viable entity in the future of the American Animation Industry, it has to change.
Many, if not most of the members of the Union are understandably upset. They have not had the kind of support from their Union that one would normally expect. The Union has, in many ways, become detached and antiquated. It clings to old ideas and outdated thinking. It asks itself why more of its 3000 members don't show up for meetings, even with free beer and pizza. Most members really don't feel they are a part of the Union. They see it as an obligation, being forced to join once they get into a Union studio in order to keep their jobs.
The Union, very likely without realizing it, has created an atmosphere of hostility among the majority of its members. Its members see it only as a means of securing a pension plan and good medical and dental benefits. But the Union has failed to meet a very basic need of its membership. It has failed to protect them in the modern animation environment that I have been describing thus far. It cannot offer them hope. It cannot offer them a plan for the future. By their own admission, they cannot help them with employment once they have been laid off. They can only offer them a list of Union studios whose doors they can knock on.
To underscore my point, the list they provide is badly outdated. I've been told by an unemployed Union artist looking for work that several of the studios that are on that list no longer exist.
They are perceived as being impersonal and uncaring. If they are passing out lists with studios that do not exist anymore, it can also be argued that they are disorganized and certainly out of touch with what is going on.
When a newcomer enters a Union studio for the first time to work as an animation artist, they immediately assume a hefty financial debt to the Union in the form of an entrance or initiation fee. This fee can be substantial as it is usually equivalent to two weeks gross salary plus quarterly dues. For many artists entering the industry, especially those who are paying off massive student loans, this is a daunting financial obligation that does nothing for them but help to keep them struggling. If the fee is not paid, the artist will be forced out of his or her job. This isn't a very effective way of developing goodwill.
Artists entering animation view this as a ransom they must pay to stay employed. None of this money goes towards anything that is of any benefit to them. It only goes to sustain a Union front office that staffs between 3 nd 5 full time employees and as a fee to the mother union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Screen Engineers (or as they are referred to in the entertainment industry, IATSE), which in turn is a tributary of the AFL-CIO.
On top of the fact that such a heavy load is assumed by the newcomer in the industry, the benefits which make the Union so attractive are withheld from the new employee until six hundred hours of work in a Union studio have been logged, and the fee has been paid. The frustration that artists have with the Union is compounded by the fact that one's benefits can be lost if they find themselves in an extended period of unemployment or wind up working non-union, which is not uncommon.
There aren't many new members who are anxious and eager to contribute to the Union experience. The Union winds up with an apathetic member who is forced to join, many times against their will. If a studio decides to sign a Union contract, the artists employed at the studio at that time may enter the Union without having to pay the initiation fee. But those that are hired later feel cheated. Through no fault of their own, they've become a victim of circumstance. While the new members who got in for free and are absolved of the financial obligation associated with Union membership, their new coworkers are not and become upset and disgruntled. They simply do not develop an appreciation for the Union because the Union does nothing for them but make their lives more difficult at the outset of their careers in a Union studio.
The Union expends a lot of energy in an effort to get non-union studios to ultimately sign a Union contract. The reason why they have such a difficult time with most of these non-union studios is that the Union is not trusted. The Union fails to protect its members. It fails to adequately defend its own membership from the abuses that artists in many Union shops have to suffer through. The non-union artists see the Union as simply a benefits package and not much else. They have 401K plans at non-union studios along with medical and dental benefits. To add insult to injury, non-union artists are working steadily and many Union artists are not. Employment situations, although far from ideal, can oftentimes be better than what they are in Union studios. Many non-union artists are gainfully employed, have good benefits, a 401K plan and do not see the need for joining the Union. Furthermore, the arguments that the Union presents to these artists to encourage them to sign Union representation cards fall short. Why should a non-union artist join the union when the situation at Union studios is worse than the situation they deal with in a non-union studio?
Besides, the Union argues that it has an audited 401K plan, but that plan is held hostage by IATSE. If the Union were ever to break away, IATSE has the legal right to confiscate the entire pension fund of Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Local 839.
For the Union to become a viable part of the future of animation, it must reinvent itself and start asserting its protective power. I will include the following suggestions in hope that its membership will take some action.
First, stop attacking your non-union colleagues. They are not responsible for the problems in the industry, nor the problems within the Union itself. They are a major part of the potential solution. Stop aiming your rhetorical guns at them. You are encouraging the politics of divisiveness which does our community no good whatsoever. They have a right to choose. They won't be forced, manipulated or coerced into signing up for Union representation. The Union has to focus on the common problem that we as an industry and as a community face. The Union must develop a practical, long term plan for doing something about empowering its members and protecting them against the unfair labor policies and practices of the pseudo producers.
Second, the Union itself has to realize that it contributes to the negative situation that exists in this industry and it has to make a commitment to change. It has to become a strong leader once again. If it does not, then it will be simply continue to be what it currently is, a benefits and pension administrator for those who happen to be vested with them and not much more.
Third, they've got to do something about the way they handle their day to day business affairs. As a test, a friend of mine called their offices recently. He was laid off and left a message with the receptionist for a certain individual there whose responsibility it is to assist the membership in this way. My friend's call was never returned.
I spoke with individuals at the union office recently. I offered to help them pass out Union representation cards at my place of business in an effort to do something about the situation that exists in animation. I found my conversation with the people at the office surreal. In a discussion I had, I was amazed at their lack of understanding about what was going on, or the gravity of the situation. There wasn't much coherency to what they were saying. At one point, I asked to have their newsletter The Pegboard, sent to me. The person I spoke with informed me that it would cost $10 a year, and that they would have to receive payment before they sent it. I was astonished. Here I was, offering to assist them in drumming up new members and they were being this petty.
Which leads me to my next suggestion. Get The Pegboard out! Get it out to everyone for free! Leave stacks of them at break areas in Union and non-union shops. This is a vital communication tool. It is vital for getting your point of view considered. What good will it do your organization to reserve it only for members?
Something must also be done about the phone demeanor of those full time employees running the office. They come off as crass, arrogant, rude and genuinely hostile to everyone, especially their own members. I suggest that the Union's office personnel take a Dale Carnegie course or two.
Cut out those old, outdated strong arm tactics. I've been informed that someone from the Union recently entered a small, start up studio and threatened them with closure if they didn't sign a contract with them. If this is true, what kind of a method is this for influencing people and winning friends? You're lucky harassment charges weren't filed against you.
There are more effective, professional ways of doing business. Members must be attracted, not bullied into joining. The Union has to develop a new approach in its relationships with small studios and individual artists if it expects to exist.
They must take the initiative in investigating every complaint that comes their way pertaining to employer abuse and aggressively defend its members when the situation calls for it. Their clients are its members, not the studios. They must get their priorities straight. Offer legal assistance if the situation warrants it. Fight for your people. Get involved with what is going on. Offer comfort and encouragement and not this helpless, defeatist babble which they are becoming so well known for.
For example, in the January issue of The Pegboard, the following comments can be found: "Nobody can expect to be employed by one company from college to retirement. The days of lifetime employment are deader than Elvis Presley". I wonder. Those working in animation management aren't doing too bad now, are they? And how about you guys working at Union headquarters?
"You can contact us and let us help when you are unemployed. We can't create jobs where there aren't any, but often we can steer you in the right direction." To be sure. By passing out lists of studios which include ones which don't exist anymore?
And why in the world can't the Union create jobs? What kind of progressive thinking is this? Why can't those fat cats from IATSE or the AFL-CIO provide start up capital for small businesses? Why can't the Union get seed money from the mother ship to get the Union studios of tomorrow going? Why can't independent projects be funded by the Union? I see no reason why it can't be done.
When independent entrepreneurial animation artists take the risk to get a new shop up and running, what does the Union do to help them succeed? Come barging through the doors and threaten to close them down? Why should any independent animation enterprise sign with the Union if the Union cannot provide any real, tangible assistance to anyone?
The modern animation industry era consists of highly skilled, extremely specialized artists involved in the creation of intellectual properties which are marketed around the world in every way imaginable. The Union must wake up to this reality and in the future, address issues that pertain to this economic environment.
Last, but certainly not least, I suggest that when the Union's contract with the studios expires in July, 2000, get rid of that "no strike clause" forever. A no strike clause is an admission of weakness. It allows the studios to do whatever they want and leaves the Union powerless to do anything about it. A labor union that does not have the right to strike is not really a labor union at all. It cannot possibly defend its constituency against widespread abuse. It renders its ultimate weapon useless.
The Union must redefine itself. It must find a way of becoming viable in ways other than pension money held hostage by IATSE and medical and dental benefits. It has to have the courage and energy to do what its supposed to do by standing up to defend and protect its members. It has to encourage and foster entrepreneurial endeavors within the industry. It has to become member oriented instead of IATSE centered. It has to have an ideological reason to exist and it must be able to apply that ideology. Otherwise, all it will be doing is publishing a newsletter, collecting dues and getting nowhere.
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Re: More never ending bullsh*t from The Animation Guild
Boy that's a real kick in the nutz for the entrenched union execs ain't it?
Let's see... $400 x 350 = $140,000.
They'll survive. They'll just hang out long enough for newbies to be hired at... what is it... a $3200 initiation fee? That'll make up for what they're losing.
"Creatives Unite"...
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I remember the 1999 AN meeting. I was just 26 years old. Man, seems like yesterday. I asked Steve, who was speaking at the meeting, what their trump card was for keeping work local. Since the issue was about losing work overseas and Steve was calling for people to unite at the meeting. I was trying to figure it all out. I had worked in comics for about 5 years at that point and was also starting to work freelance in animation. A couple of non union and union shops...Whenever I got work from Union shops, freelance, I would get this bill from the Union. I didn't understand what it was for. So I wanted to know their services. Steve didn't really answer the question. I kept asking, what do we pay for besides benefits. What is your power if we unite? Can you keep work local and jobs more accessible? He decided to pull me aside to "answer my questions" and instead got in my face and was yelling at me that I didn't know the process...my point at the time, was duh thats whyy I asked and I kept asking, what are we paying for? People are paying you for a service and I want to know what it is...all he could do is yell at me that I was ignorant and all I could do was agree and kept asking and asking until he just left.
I still don't know what their trump card is and at 40 years old and being a very active member, participator and contributor to AN since then I would think I would have some more information...But I don't other then what I knew at 26...its a shake down.
Charles articles and sensibility has always been way progressive to the pack and its silly to hear vernacular and posts that read like his old articles coming from the people we've been having issues with since the beginning. Its ok, cuz those parroted articles are empty with intent...other then, hey, live in fear, sign up and pay us to feel secure...hahahaha people need to read Alan Watts. or sumtin
Re: More never ending bullsh*t from The Animation Guild
The scary thing is Charles' articles are still spot on. Not much has changed with the system. Lies and censorship.
But no one takes Steve seriously. No one i know takes the union seriously. So he can spout his "unity" rhetoric, but talk is cheap, steve.
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Rabbit & Brown Rice is a high protein, extremely palatable mixture. Brown rice offers a grain carbohydrate with the nutrient rich bran portion intact and Rabbit meat has one of the fewest calories per pound compared to other meats.
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Venison & Sweet Potato
Ingredients - Venison, Venison Broth, Sweet Potatoes, Potatoes, Dehydrated Potatoes, Potato Protein, Salmon Oil, Canola Oil, Calcium Carbonate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Guar Gum, Sodium Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Carrageenan, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin Supplement, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Sodium Selenite, Calcium Pantothenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin, Calcium Iodate, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement
Guaranteed AnalysisCrude Protein (min) 6.0%Crude Fat (min) 4.0%Crude Fiber (max) 1.5%Moisture (max) 76.0%
Wild Boar & Brown Rice
Ingredients - Wild Boar, Water for Processing, Brown Rice, Canola Oil , CalciumCarbonate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Guar Gum, Natural HickorySmoke Flavor, Inulin, Carrageenan, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin Supplement, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Ascorbic Acid (source of Vitamin C), Sodium Selenite, Calcium Pantothenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin, Calcium Iodate. Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement
Guaranteed AnalysisCrude Protein (min) 7.0%Crude Fat (min) 5.5%Crude Fiber (max) 1.0%Moisture (max) 78.0%
Rabbit & Brown Rice
Ingredients - Water for Processing, Rabbit, Brown Rice, Rice Starch, Rice Bran, Calcium Carbonate, Canola Oil , Guar Gum, Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor, Salt, Dicalcium, Phosphate, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Carrageenan, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Vitamin E, Supplement, Niacin Supplement, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Thiamine, Mononitrate, Ascorbic Acid (source of Vitamin C), Sodium Selenite, Calcium Pantothenate,, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin, Calcium Iodate, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin 812 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement
Guaranteed AnalysisCrude Protein (min) 5.5%Crude Fat (min) 5.0%Crude Fiber (max) 1.0%Moisture (max) 78.0%
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Exactly what I was searching for
By Peaches
from Pueblo, Colorado
About Me Long-time Pet Owner
Comments about Natural Balance L.I.D. Allergy Formula Canned Dog Food:
Thank you so much! The rabbit and brown rice is exactly what I have looking for. My eleven year old peek-a-poo has some allergies and because of some kidney problems requires low protein content. Her vet suggested this because I have tried numerous kinds of food; I have a finicky eater. This food is unavailable in my area; I have searched every pet store to no avail.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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This food is the best
By Risky
from Atkins, IA
I like to mix this canned food with the dry food (same brand and kind) to give my dog a little something different once in a while. I feed him the dry food all the time, but about once a week, I will give him the canned food mixed with some of his dry food.
Excellent limited ingredient dog food
By Owned by Schnauzers
from Central Kentucky
I have 2 dogs that are extremely picky and have some allergy issues. This dog food agrees with their digestive system and they absolutely love it.
Our dog likes it very much.
By Yelena
from New Jersey
About Me New Owner
We feed our dog 2 times a day.
MY Dog LOVE this!
By Becky
from Stanwood, WA
My dogs are very picky and usually do not like canned food. I usually cook for them and also buy killable like blue, wellness or other top quality food. I did find out they will eat the liver flavor of this brand so when this and the rabbit came out I got a few cans and they love it! they ate it so fast I was shocked and licked the bowls so clean they looked washed! lol they don't usually do that and I have one that so picky the only way to get him to eat canned is to feed it by hand! not this stuff, he loves this ! I have to put some ground up DGP ( dog gone pain) in it for his joints and muscle pain so its good that he loves this so I can put that in his food and not worry he won't get it all. Not only that they love it but its good for them and has no grains or other bad things like by products in it. I'm very picky what I feed my dogs and this is a wonderful food. Also the rabbit and brown rice is also as good in fact I think one dog like that even more than this flavor. so I have 3 flavors to feed them and the kibble to keep a healthy diet. It good to feed more than one kind of meat so they do not become allergic or sensitive to one type of food or bored. I'd try all these if I were you and you have a picky dog.
My dog didn't like this
By Barb
from Woodridge, IL
My dog didn't like this food (he is picky and food sensitive and has food allergies). There is liquid smoke in this which you can really smell.
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High quality at a reasonable price
By S, S & B
from Breckenridge, CO
My dog loves all of the Natural Balance LID foods, both canned and dry. They are very nutritional.
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Gentle on our dog's tummy
By JoeNahNah
from Sacramento, CA
I picked some of this up for our family dog after he had to have surgery and didn't want to eat his other grain-free dog food. He ate this right away and now we buy it for him regularly. Happy to say he recovered quickly because of this natural balance dog food, and now we buy the matching LID potato & duck dry food too.
Sensitive on Dog's Stomach
By MichaelBoats
from Boston, MA
I have to keep my Husky on a limited ingredient diet because of his sensitive stomach. We love the Natural Balance L.I.D. foods because there's variety in the flavors and all of them are free of anything that can upset my dog's delicate system. He had reactions to other brands, but not this one. The duck & potato is one of his favorites and he always licks the bowl clean when I feed him this. My Desmond is very important to me and this canned dog food keeps him energetic and happy, so I will continue buying it.
Newy but a greatie!!!!!!
By Topknotdogtraining.com
from Boca Raton, FL
I mix some canned with the dry, very palatable, all around great results. Happy, happy, happy.
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