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Possible unionisation at MPC

Dec 03, 2015 by Joel LeLievre
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VFX Forum is reporting that the VFX branch of BECTU has given formal notice to MPC’s management that the Compositing Department at MPC are unionising, and will be applying for union recognition. You can read the story on the VFX Forum blog. We will keep a close eye on this story in the days to come, and will report back on any changes we hear about.

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MauricioPC
9 years ago

This is actually great. A first sign that the artists are getting tired of being worked past the common sense. Hope they are able to win the fight.

Konstantin
9 years ago

Yeah, at last !!!

It’s sad to say, but we defintly need more unionisation in this field.

Anders
9 years ago

It took you guys in VFX long enough … Harassed for years, unpaid overtime, blacklisting if you critisize (at least in Cali) and so on. Taking it for years like an abused housewife. Someone finally got the guts do do something.

Adam Walker
9 years ago

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Good luck to them!

FX is a global market now, as pointed out by Pierre Grage’s “Inside VFX”, where he lashes out from a very privileged position the woes of the demise of US dominion on VFX production; it’s a global enterprise now. You can’t unionise a global marketplace; nor complain that it is global either!

I am pretty sure it’s NOT the account managers at MPC that are unionising… they are just learning more Hindi / Mandarin / Korean / Thai / Tagalog / kiwi / etc!

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