We want to alert members to some key dates and happenings in the AVU world!
MPC to SCRAP pay rises in 2022 and introduces a new RAG system which makes full-time studio working MANDATORY.
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If you want your employer and other facilities to follow suit with recognising and paying overtime, then please add your voice to this petition and then share with your colleagues. Responses to this petition will be anonymous and not shared with any employer.
We are gathering signatures in support of paid overtime at the UK’s Animation and VFX facilities. Once we have collected these signatures, we will be presenting this petition to the facilities.
Last year, during the Covid pandemic, DNEG attempted to cut wages and were successfully rebuffed by many of their staff who stuck together – staff doing so both with support from Bectu but also independently. Their subsequent round of redundancies was also briskly challenged by union members during which it was clear to the company that poor labour relations were costing the company money and goodwill.
Now they finally broken ranks and agreed to pay overtime rates for all work recorded over 40 hours in a week.
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Outpost VFX has brought in new policies covering the overtime payments for its UK PAYE artists and production staff.
From 1 September 2021, team members up to a lead position will be eligible for one-and-a-half times pay on all work beyond 40 hours per week, as well as all weekend work.
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Toxic Labor Practices At Mill Film Led A VFX Worker To Suicide, Co-Workers Allege
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The Animation & Visual Effects Union has seen an unprecedented soar in membership since the beginning of the lockdown in the UK, with a membership increase in excess of 50%
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A large number of Bectu members, in association with many more non-members working in the Feature Animation Division of DNEG have forced the animation and VFX employer to seek help from business partners to replace lost staff incomes.
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