VFX workers for “Saturday Night Live” have unionized with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE).
The group, which includes 16 VFX artists and leads, unanimously signed cards supporting unionizing with IATSE, winning official recognition of their union, IATSE announced Monday. The workers focus on VFX work within “SNL’s” pre-recorded digital shorts, including last week’s “My Best Friend’s House” music
video featuring Ariana Grande, which require staffers to work under extremely tight deadlines.
The “SNL” VFX team isn’t the only one on the hallowed NBC show that IATSE has recently unionized. In October 2022, IATSE successfully organized the show’s editors, who reached a deal on their first
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