Congratulations to our member Ella Frehtman @ellallueve.bsky.social  for being a recipient of the FSU’s Bursary Scheme 2025!

Kilkenny Meeting coming up! 📆 After a brief summer break we are back! It is this Friday, 7.30 PM at Bollards Bar, 31-32 St Kieran's Street. Open to everyone! Come learn about what we've been doing, what we are planning and how you can help to improve the Irish animation industry! See you there!

BREAKING: International coalition of over two dozen worker unions declares emergency over AI use in animation

🔊 Attention animation workers! If you were affected by layoffs in your career, help us build a better industry for YOU by sharing your experience in our redundancy survey! ✨ Link: https://f.mtr.cool/ffreexynxq✨

In our next episode of Work Matters, The FSU Podcast, we sit down with John O Connell, FSU General Secretary, to get an update on — collective bargaining, a voice for trade union members, the remote working code of practice, and more. Drops Tuesday at 12noon: www.fsunion.org/latest/work-...

We've been crunching some numbers and here we have the adjusted rates for the Animation sector 2025. 📊 The chart is divided in quartiles (the 25% that make less, the middle, and the 25% on top) for Junior, Mid and Senior roles.

📣Attention recent graduates 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓! If you have found or are currently looking for your first job in animation, don't miss signing up for this free seminar about your rights, expected wages, and union benefits can be going into the industry! 🔗 Link here: https://tr.ee/zENlgs 🔗

It was an excellent day! Thank you so much to everyone involved and to everyone attending!

📣Attention Animation Workers!📣 Come join us for the first Kilkenny in-person meeting of the year this Friday, April 4th. Members and non-members are welcome. We have many many updates so don't miss this one out. Bring your colleagues, deskmates and friends!

🚨 LINK IN BIO FOR NON MEMBERS 🚨 AWI is proud to announce its first ever life drawing session! Held upstairs at FSU offices on THURSDAY, MARCH 27TH, the session will be free for members! Spaces are limited to 30 people, sign ups are available in the link on our bio! Refreshments will be served 😊

Dublin’s First AWI Meet and Greet for members and non-members! 🎉 After the huge success at Kilkenny Animated last year we are bringing that energy to Dublin with a catered event!

Free for Members AND Non Members! We have an open advice line for this week to help guide you if you have any questions, concerns, or need support in your career. If you feel like your rights are being abused, you can call or email the addresses above! It's completely free.

Come over to our next Dublin meeting! Jan 23rd, 6: 45 pm at the FSU offices. We'll be talking about our 2025 strategy, don't miss out!

Have you ever had to chase down invoices and payments on completed jobs? It's a scary reality for artists in the Irish animation industry especially coming up to the notoriously expensive Christmas period. 1/2

For the first time and not the last time AWI was tabling at DCAF and the energy there was amazing! It was great to meet so many new faces, talk to so many people and get so much great feedback. We look forward to seeing you all again soon, look out for our January meet and greet!

Come meet us at @dublincomicarts.bsky.social on December 7-8th! We will have some members and reps at the table to answer any questions you might have about the union or the industry in general! Come say hi!

Let’s support these workers! www.theguardian.com/business/202... #blackfriday #boycott #strike #workers #amazon #shop

As I’ve been saying for over a year: If your business model doesn’t work without violating the law, you’re not in business — you’re in organized crime. Great reporting by @elainelow.bsky.social. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...

bsky.app/profile/did:... We love to see that we are being followed by activists all around the world! We've made a list of all the unions/activist groups from the animation and entertainment sectors. Let us know of any other accounts you know!

To support the social movement at Don't Nod, we've set up an online strike fund 👛 If you can afford it and would like to contribute, please do! ⤵ www.stjv.fr/en/2024/11/s...

New to BlueSky too? Want stay in the loop with the global trade union movement? Checkout this #starterpack of unions around the world: go.bsky.app/HHsXSrp 👀 Spot anything missing? Drop your union's handle in the comments - let’s grow this list together! 🔄 Boost this post to help everyone connect.

Tomorrow!

Hey lovely people - it’s time for another Dublin hangout! 🍻 From now on all meetings will happen at the FSU building; we’ll be discussing Union and Recruitment Strategies, Community Engagement and much more! As usual non members are welcome;we wanna hear from you! ❤️ See you all in a week!

Happy International Animation Day! For people of all ages who enjoy animation, and for those who make those animations! Let's keep working together to bring on a better future with great stories, made by people, for people ❤️