“This has been a long, horrible battle trying to get animation writing covered. We are not giving up. I’m really just here to say that when the strike is over, when we have won the contract we deserve, we are circling back to animation. We are going to be back. We’re going to be better than ever. And we are going to get this goddamn industry organized.”

The effort to unionize animation’s east coast writers has been discussed for over a decade. Like much of animated children’s television, New York’s animation writing community is not covered by a WGA contract and does not fall under the collective bargaining agreements of the Los Angeles-based Animation Guild, IASTE Local 839, which represents animation artists, writers and technicians.