As some of you know, I work as a painter and designer for major motion-picture and tv animated productions.

The studio I currently work at is a union shop (MPSC 839).

Since union work means awesome insurance plans, very high pay rates, excellent vacation and materinty leave time, plus the benefits of worker rights and protection from unpaid overtime demands, unfair firing and layoffs etc, our studio attracts some of the best and most talented artists in the industry.

As a result of having such talented artists and creators, our studio has been the #1 TV animation studio for years now. We have three cabinets in our lobby with dozens of emmy's, and dozens of other awards from pretty much everyone you can win one from. One of our projects generates over $1billion dollars of revenue per year.

Our staff is happy, fun, and most will stay at this studio until retirement (or until being plucked away by Pixar or Lucas studios).

My friends who don't work at union studios, work more buy are paid less, get fired more, hate their jobs, and the studios pump out garbage year after year after year.

Sure, I'd rather just not work at all. But since I have to and I understand what piles of feces corporate executives can be are, I will only work in union shops.