Animation Guild Starts ‘March on the Boss’ Rallies as Contract Talks Continue

As its talks with Hollywood studios on a new contract continue, The Animation Guild launched the first of a series of planned marches called “March on the Boss,” delivering petitions to studio executives demanding a fair deal for animators.

Netflix is the first studio on the list, as hundreds of guild workers marched to the streamer’s headquarters to deliver a petition signed by nearly 2,000 of its animation employees.

“The petition reminds these bosses that while animation workers kept content alive during the COVID lockdown, and animation is outperforming live action on screens and in merchandise sales, animation workers are facing unprecedented levels of unemployment, losing their healthcare, homes, and livelihoods,” TAG said in a statement.