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Sam Bissonnette retweeted
PBS Kids Animation writers deserve the same compensation as their live-action writer peers.
In letters delivered to management across the negotiating table on 10/29, @PBS writers demanded management give them the respect - and union protections - they’ve earned. #UnionStrong
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
Animation writers deserve the same protections and wages as their live-action colleagues! We’re fighting to get union coverage for PBS writers on shows like Molly of Denali and Cyberchase. #PBSWritersUnited
#UnionStrong #1u
I’m fighting for a PBS union contract with fair pay for ALL PBS writers because writing for PBS is writing for PBS, no matter if it’s animation or live-action. #PBSWritersUnited @WGAEast @WGAWest
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
Send a letter to Sesame Workshop executives calling for a fair union contract before TOMORROW, April 19 ✊ actionnetwork.org/letters/su…
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
WGA members at Sesame Workshop are prepared to strike. 🪧
The unit voted UNANIMOUSLY - with 100% participation - to authorize a strike if management does not reach a fair new contract before their current agreement expires this Friday, April 19.
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
Loved working with Sam! With a head full of ideas and a kind heart, she'd be a great addition to any team. ✨
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
Sam is an amazing writer, teacher and collaborator!
Also, it is basically the holidays.
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Personal testimony from animation writer @sambissonnette on the expectations that studios have that freelancers come prepared, but without wanting to pay for it. #FreelanceNotFreeWork
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The new WGA agreement can be viewed in full below, including new protections against AI, increase in streaming residuals, writer pay increases & much more. wgacontract2023.org/the-camp…
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
We did it. We have a tentative deal.
Over the coming days, we'll discuss and vote on it, together, as a democratic union. But today, I want to thank every single WGA member, and every fellow worker who stood with us in solidarity. You made this possible. Thank you. #WGAStrong
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
A common misconception about #animation writers is that we get to be ✨CREATIVE✨
I am *commissioned* to write within my employer's guidelines. I have to take time to learn my employer's needs and universe. Reasonably, a contractor should charge for the time of this labor.
✊ With animation writing staffs becoming more and more rare, freelancers need to stand up for themselves and stand together. #FreelanceNotFreeWork
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
I‘ve said this before, we had to fight to get a writers room for Kipo. That was in 2017 & we got it. I had hoped that would be part of a trend of more writers rooms on animated shows but it turned out to be the opposite. We need to save writing as a career. #FreelanceNotFreeWork
What happens when writer's rooms stop staffing and turn to a freelance-only model? You guessed it, the writers lose out. Freelancers get paid half as much as what a staff writer makes for writing the EXACT same script. Check the numbers and spread the word. #FreelanceNotFreeWork
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
Pro tip! In The Animation Guild contract "freelance" is refered to as "unit rates." #FreelanceNotFreeWork
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
At 7PM tonight! @RosannaXia of The Los Angeles Times presents her new book, CALIFORNIA AGAINST THE SEA, with @LATstevelopez. Details here: skylightbooks.com/event/skyl…
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
L.A. friends, come by @skylightbooks tonight for the launch of California Against the Sea!!
At 7PM tonight! @RosannaXia of The Los Angeles Times presents her new book, CALIFORNIA AGAINST THE SEA, with @LATstevelopez. Details here: skylightbooks.com/event/skyl…
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
What happens when writer's rooms stop staffing and turn to a freelance-only model? You guessed it, the writers lose out. Freelancers get paid half as much as what a staff writer makes for writing the EXACT same script. Check the numbers and spread the word. #FreelanceNotFreeWork
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
15A - @sambissonnette first ep is one of my faves! Ginger's Dads (Lance Bass and Michael Turchin) order too many potatoes for their latke food truck so Bossy, Turtle, and Ginger do everything they can to help them sell as many latkes as they can! It's a real... LATKEPALOOZA!
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
We created our version of Pokémon on #BossyBear called Boom Boom Super Satang! They're like little candy warriors and our marketing team created this video showing off some of the warriors and how to play! CHECK IT OUT!
youtube.com/watch?v=0LTZ7mnV….
Sam Bissonnette retweeted
In 2017 when I was staffing Kipo, a TAG animated show for Netflix/DreamWorks, I had to fight tooth and nail to get a writing staff. Then I had to fight to get a writers room, and offices for where the writers could, you know, write. One was basically a closet for three people. – at Los Angeles, CA
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Sam Bissonnette retweeted
True!!! TAG / IATSE 839 has a no strike clause in their contract, as did the WGA. Their contract is current. Legally they can’t strike in solidarity. I know personally that TAG writers are doing everything possible to show solidarity. They have our backs. #WGAStrong #UnionStrong – at Burbank, CA
