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Just like the recent unionization of Marvel Studios VFX staffers, a unit of Walt Disney Pictures VFX staffers has made another historic step.

Election marks the first time a sole group of VFX workers has unionized with IATSE since visual effects were pioneered nearly 50 years ago.

Two weeks after Marvel’s in-house VFX crews sent union authorization cards to the NLRB, another set of Disney VFX workers are getting the Mouse House in order

The request to the National Labor Relations Board to hold a unionization vote comes just weeks after Marvel VFX workers made history.

The workers join the latest wave of industry artists calling for protections afforded their union colleagues; group follows Marvel VFX workers as only the 2nd ever VFX worker NLRB filing.

Now that an election agreement has been met, Marvel’s VFX crew will vote next week for union representation, hopefully paving the way for further participation across the entire industry.

Organizing with IATSE, workers will vote on whether or not they wish to unionize starting on August 21.

If this works out, it will be the first push in trying to unionize more and more overworked VFX artists

The brave group have signed authorization cards to help bring the VFX industry towards union representation in the face of shocking firings, long hours, and 7-day weeks.

The "summer of labor" continues as VFX workers come together to form their own union.