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searches for "union" hahaha yep, this word exists in this article but entirely in the context of how Japanese animators have absolutely no union. I ain't sayi

searches for "union" hahaha yep, this word exists in this article but entirely in the context of how Japanese animators have absolutely no union. I ain't saying the US animation union is perfect but at least there is one; if I hear that some big production like Spiderverse2 is at a non-union shop then it's off my list to bother seeing, even via piracy. I trained to be in this industry and burnt right the fuck out from working at a non-union shop run by a truly evil person, but I still feel solidarity with folks who stuck it out.

debacle 3y ago
Does Japan have a labor movement? I would expect not a strong one.
- diggan 3y ago
  > In 2005, 43,096 labour unions in Japan, with a combined membership of 7,395,666 workers, belonged either directly, or indirectly through labour union councils, to the three main labour union federations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_Japan
- cybrox 3y ago
  How would they have time for that with those overtime schedules..? Jokes aside, though, yes they do. Though as far as I am aware, mostly in the traditional sense for the primary industry sector to keep companys from working employees to death physically but not really modernized in the tertiary sector. Memberships are declining and I think a great many issues that make life difficult for people in these now more prominent sectors of industry are not openly recognized and tackled.
- bugglebeetle 3y ago
  Japan had a very strong labor movement that was systematically dismantled in the 80s, as it was in the U.S. Miyazaki Hayao was a union leader at Toei early in his career and quite famously criticized Tezuka for establishing the exploitation and underpayment of animators as industry practice with his studio, Mushi Production.
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dotnet00 3y ago
On the other hand, US animation is mostly in a pretty sad state compared to the diversity of content and target audiences in Japanese animation, as well as compared to how US animation used to be.
- supertimor 3y ago
  I mean, large parts of the entertainment industry in the US are under some sort of union or guild, and has been for a quite some time, so I’d hardly blame the animation union for the state of US animation.
Larrikin 3y ago
Is there some place to find this information for all movies?

debacle 3y ago

Does Japan have a labor movement? I would expect not a strong one.

diggan 3y ago
> In 2005, 43,096 labour unions in Japan, with a combined membership of 7,395,666 workers, belonged either directly, or indirectly through labour union councils, to the three main labour union federations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_Japan
cybrox 3y ago
How would they have time for that with those overtime schedules..? Jokes aside, though, yes they do. Though as far as I am aware, mostly in the traditional sense for the primary industry sector to keep companys from working employees to death physically but not really modernized in the tertiary sector. Memberships are declining and I think a great many issues that make life difficult for people in these now more prominent sectors of industry are not openly recognized and tackled.
bugglebeetle 3y ago
Japan had a very strong labor movement that was systematically dismantled in the 80s, as it was in the U.S. Miyazaki Hayao was a union leader at Toei early in his career and quite famously criticized Tezuka for establishing the exploitation and underpayment of animators as industry practice with his studio, Mushi Production.

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dotnet00 3y ago

On the other hand, US animation is mostly in a pretty sad state compared to the diversity of content and target audiences in Japanese animation, as well as compared to how US animation used to be.

supertimor 3y ago
I mean, large parts of the entertainment industry in the US are under some sort of union or guild, and has been for a quite some time, so I’d hardly blame the animation union for the state of US animation.

Larrikin 3y ago

Is there some place to find this information for all movies?