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animation writers animation writers a place for animation writers to write about animation god that looks redundant subscribe and stuff in no particular order links bob boyle s wublinkage dave thomas bloggage dwayne mcduffie s linkage eddie fitzgerald s bloggage eugene s linkage john kovalic s linkage john sanford chippy and loopus ken bruce s bloggage mark ackland s linkage technorati free counter blog archive 2008 43 july 1 poached from the tag blog thoughts june 5 may 3 april 5 march 3 february 4 january 22 2007 103 december 14 november 22 october 11 july 2 june 2 may 7 april 19 march 21 february 5 wednesday july 16 2008 poached from the tag blog thoughts from steve h the indecision is over let the employment begin kevin beat me to the punch with this but i post the news anyway after five weeks of negotiations we have accepted employment as writers for sit down shut up under a new contract though the program will be produced under the jurisdiction of iatse local 839 the animation guild tag we have achieved writers guild of america wga parity in key areas such as auditable residuals new media script fees merchandising rights as well as a guarantee that these gains apply not only to ourselves but also to all future writers on the show we thank the wga for its guidance and support during this process we believe we ve made a statement to the studios how important the standards of the wga are to working writers all animation writing television and features should be covered by the wga this contract is a compromise an improvement over the standard tag terms we were initially offered but not full wga coverage compromises are never easy nor satisfying always less comforting than a clear victory we know that this is part of an ongoing struggle reaching a deal will allow this program to move forward providing jobs for many writers animators actors and production staff not every writer originally offered employment on sit down shut up has decided whether to return and we understand and respect whatever decision they make we remain hopeful that all animation writing will one day be covered by a wga contract as we say negotiations are about leverage and momentum it appears that nobody came away from this totally satisfied but i m happy that the writers made a deal that s acceptable to them and i m pleased no delighted that a lot of folks are going to have work for a while congratulations to everybody posted by steve hulett at 7 36 pm 2 comments kevin koch said wow i m amazed at the viciousness and ignoranance of the comments coming from fellow writers over at deadline hollywood daily the dirty nine ugly and uncalled for wednesday july 16 2008 10 25 00 pm from me agreed we can go back and forth on iatse tag wga whatever until we re blue in the face but minimums are minimums and you get what you negotiate these writers were in the middle of their own post strike strike what did they think was going to happen when they let go of their fight for prime time animation at the same time i think tag has a responsibility now to take what these writers negotiated and use it as a springboard to raise incomes across the board for tag writers this was the last battle of the strike and even though they weren t trying to they won a victory for iatse animation writers will our union do something with that posted by steve at 11 13 pm 24 comments labels iatse sit down shut up tag wga tuesday june 24 2008 apparently there are residuals on my work and they cover more than just me and i feel better knowing that here comes math i prepare to be corrected so apparently when i write a half hour script and am paid 7500 management kicks in about 1750 per script into health care which means that as an iatse covered union type you get full health care for 3500 per year good health care probably costs 5 times that what makes up the difference you guessed it residuals that go to the union not me so going back to the root of all this the greater good comment how do feel about the fact that freelancers and people who work on daily call and short term employees that work on my productions get covered because of these residuals better than i would knowing that money was simply not being collected it doesn t mean i m thrilled with all aspects of tag but it does give me some small peace of mind to know that monies being raised on my work work which could not have existed without others working on or fixing depending on who s leading the discussion does something for them as well other writers reading this kevin steve h obligatory angry anonymous guy am i right in my numbers and if so why the hell didn t somebody say so 48 comments ago posted by steve at 10 58 pm 26 comments labels health health care iatse pension tag wga july 10th woo nothing like a dust up to make me want to realize there are faces attached to these names july 10th evite going out to writers if you haven t gotten it yet shoot me an e mail fuzzily steve posted by steve at 6 45 pm 1 comment sunday june 22 2008 obama as a metaphor nothing kicks the debate up to 11 like a talk about residuals huh to steve and others as i said here and there some of my venom has less venom right now for a few reasons on a larger scale i know that the 9 scripts i wrote the first season of yin yang yo probably chunked enough hours into the pension to help cover the insurance of 7 additional workers not writers workers seriously if that s how the hours work i have to assume ia gets paid on my work and when i go over on my hours that money goes somewhere and now i have to think as a human being as a person as someone who makes money in a business that takes so many other people to make happen is that bad am i going to be annoyed about that it s an election year this year i am voting against pocket book issues and voting for barack obama as long as we re mixing apples and oranges why personal reasons but voting for barack will affect my pocket book my taxes will go up and i wonder how is that different from my work in ia everybody talks about universal health care that shit s gotta be paid for well i think it s safe to say that at 7500 per six month period ia health care is pretty much socialized medicine and pretty much universal you work in animation chances are you re going to get it you work for ia chances are you re going to get it ia covers what 100k people with health and benefits i have to assume my hours help with that so perhaps on some of this i have to put my actual money where my philosphical heart unlike every other union ia is not a single issue union they have writers which i think they could do a better job servicing but they have a lot more even tag is not a single issue guild they have writers which i know they could service better we re part of a whole whether we like it or not which is why i m starting to feel change needs to come from within rather than waiting for any other union or lack of one to save the day posted by steve at 8 19 am 14 comments labels barack obama health care iatse pension tag wga saturday june 21 2008 apples and oranges my breakdown of the residuals discussion okay so i m not the biggest fan of how ia tag handles writers within it s fold no big secret there but for very good reasons i ve had to do some digging into something i think ia gets right for writers health care steve h you ll be better at the math than i am but here s my guestimation if i writer writes one half hour of material they are paid 7500 and clock in at 300 hours that is enough to qualify them for health care for six months that means someone making 15k per year can get health and pension do that fifteen years and you get health care for life i don t know what the for life plan is for the wga so now i want to do some math i am intentionally not differentiating between animation and live action and i am rooting all of this in the basic cable world because that s what i know animation writer one half hour 7 5k no additional monies ever healthcare triggered for six months upon completion of script 300 hours of pension and health credited basic cable live action writer one half hour script 12k reruns once 6k more total with 12 runs since that s where the math stops changing 21k ish health care triggered at 31k head expoloding yet so here s what it boils down to you write two scripts a year you get health with both with ia tag you make 15k and that s it with wga you make 42k with the potential to make more so here are the questions every writer asks when they think of this stuff is an ia writer compensated higher in credited hours for work than others in the union 300 hours for one script i would say yes is there a difference between the two if there are no reruns yes 4 5k could a writer take that 27k and buy their own health plan for their family maybe depends on health i suppose does a writer qualify for health care in ia faster than the wga sorta so for people like me people who work in both unions it s a conundrum i would much rather be getting wga minimums for my work but if i wasn t getting wga work my world view would be much much different the question is this what is apples and oranges writing vs writing prime time animation writing vs basic cable animation writing wga basic cable writing vs ia basic cable writing those are the facts as i know them i know how i feel about the whole thing the question is if the above is correct how do you posted by steve at 7 04 pm 3 comments labels basic cable minimums iatse residuals sit down shut up wga residuals monday june 16 2008 sit down shut up honestly when it comes to my unions i m used to it so yeah there s this writers take a stand over sit down dispute highlights ongoing tension between unions on thursday the writers for sony pictures tv s upcoming animated fox series sit down shut up walked off the show in pursuit of wga representation the writers who are members of the wga claimed that they were misled by sony tv that they would be covered by the writers guild while the studio had made arrangements with another union iatse the labor dispute highlights the ongoing tension between the two unions over jurisdiction in primetime animated series the writers on all other animated fox series produced by 20th century fox tv are represented by the wga 20th tv also co produces sit down but sony tv which developed the comedy with studio based writer mitchell hurwitz is the lead production entity sony tv produces sit down through its animation division adelaide prods under iatse writers not only won t get new media revenues and other terms the wga negotiated with the studios during the strike they also won t get paid residuals a crucial safety net for scribes between jobs there s a bunch of other blah blah blah stuff in there but it really boils down to this the writers on this show are getting a taste of how little animation writers make under the iatse contract or to be fair how little they make in success i m sure their episodic rate was the same it s the residuals and the back end that s lower than they re used to and by lower i mean nonexistent i m torn here of course i m pulling for the writers because in the end all they re asking for is money in success but then there s ambivalence because i am not so foolish as to think it will affect anyone but these individual writers good for them doesn t mean anything for the rest of us the wga had a moment where they could have stood their ground for animation writers and animation writing was one of the first things they folded on during the strike no surprise really animation writers of my level not of the simpsons family guy king of the hill level simply are not a large enough part of the wga and they weren t going to strike over us i get it meanwhile the same math works on iatse non writing union members call the shots we re a small percentile steve got a number within the union that does represent us one doesn t want us and one doesn t hear us but they re both fighting loudly over us thanks for the invite guys but i know you re only doing this to make the girl you love jealous call me when prom is over posted by steve at 12 24 am 16 comments labels adelaide productions fox iatse sit down shut up sony wga friday may 30 2008 falling hare update hey there okay so you re probably wondering what s up first the obligatory preamble seven scripts went to stephen worth with the caveat of read this when you have time they were messengered over scrubbed clean of any identity and he has them at his leisure he will read them then he ll let me know which script he felt best took the cartoon and backward engineered it into script form i have my choice but that s not the contest once a winner is picked i will reach out to that person and see if they re okay with their work being scanned and uploaded as a pdf file part of my radio silence has been a little bit of good news which i ll share with anyone who wants to shoot me an e mail with that have good weekends posted by steve at 10 43 pm 5 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom