FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

1. What is the main benefit to joining a union?

2. Will members benefit from any immediate results after joining the union?


3. Once a union has been assembled, how quickly will union members experience actual change?


4. Does being in a union mean that there are strict rules as to what artists can be paid (i.e. are there any caps on pay for certain roles)?

5. Might a union enforce strikes on the workers, potentially alienating the artists from the studios?


6. If we succeed in getting paid for overtime, this would make the work more expensive. Might this put off production companies from coming to the UK instead of opting for other countries?


7.  VFX is mainly computer-based work, so is there a higher chance that the VFX union would move to a different country because it's "more transportable" than other areas of the industry?


8. How much of a say do the union members have in the decisions taken by the union? For example, would there be a democracy-based decision making process?