The Animation Guild, I.A.T.S.E. Local 839
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| Full name | The Animation Guild and Affiliated Optical Electronic and Graphic Arts |
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| Native name | IATSE Local #839 |
| Founded | 1952 |
| Members | 2,550 (2010) |
| Head union | International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees |
| Affiliation | AFL-CIO |
| Key people | Laura Hohman, President Karen Carnegie Johnson, Vice President Jason MacLeod, Business Representative Paula Spence, Recording Secretary Robert St. Pierre, Sergeant-at-Arms |
| Office location | Burbank, CA |
| Country | United States |
| Website | www.animationguild.org |
The Animation Guild, I.A.T.S.E. Local 839 is a professional guild and union of animation artists, writers and technicians. It was formed in 1952. In 2002, the organization changed its name from Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists.
The full name of the organization is The Animation Guild and Affiliated Optical Electronic and Graphic Arts, Local 839 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations/Canadian Labour Congress.
The Animation Guild is governed by its membership, which meets every two months. To supervise the Guild's affairs, every three years the membership elects a sixteen-person Executive Board by secret mail ballot. As of December 2016, the key executives on the Board are:
The Business Representative is the only paid, full-time elected official of the Guild, which also has a paid staff. All other Board members work at studios under the Guild's jurisdiction.
The Animation Guild negotiates and enforces collective bargaining agreements, or CBAs, with companies employing persons under its jurisdiction. These CBAs:
All of the terms and conditions of Animation Guild CBAs are minimums; that is, any employee working under a CBA has the unrestricted right to negotiate better terms and conditions than those set forth in the CBA. Such better terms and conditions include but are not limited to:
The text of the Guild's current CBAs and sideletters can be found on their website.
Although not part of the CBA, the Guild sponsors a multi-employer, employee-funded 401(k) plan to which virtually all of its employers are signed. The 401(k) plan was administered by Mass Mutual in the past, but is currently managed by The Vanguard Group.
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