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The  International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) union announced that over 80 percent of the 18 in-house Visual Effects (VFX) crewmembers at Walt Disney Pictures expressed a desire to unionize. Their organizing follows a push at Marvel that started earlier this month and is in the midst of ongoing strikes by the actors’ and writers’ guilds. IATSE VFX Organizer Mark Patch:

VFX workers at Disney file for unionization under IATSE. Marvel VFX staffers are currently voting on such an initiative.

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.

Visual effects workers at Walt Disney Pictures are seeking to unionize, and have filed with the National Labor Relations Board.

Walt Disney Pictures visual effects crews filed with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday to vote to unionize.

VFX crews at Walt Disney Studios have filed to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board in a historic gain for the visual effects labor movement. The news comes after revelations that VFX professionals are underpaid and overworked.

VFX supervisor Johnny Han, working with Scanline VFX, EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani, Mackevision, MR. X, BUF, and Jellyfish Pictures, produced 2,000 shots for Season 1A and 2,500 for Season 1B – including the ‘Shockdog’ - on the Emmy nominated HBO series, set in an 1896 London rocked by a supernatural event that gives certain people – mostly women – abnormal abilities.

Due to the ongoing writers and actors strike in Hollywood, 'Dune: Part Two' has officially been delayed to 2024.