Hollywood’s long, hot union summer is getting superheroic
The labor organization said that Marvel’s more than 50-worker crew had signed authorization cards indicating they wished to be represented by the union.
These are VFX pros employed directly by Marvel and generally work in Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York. It doesn’t include the thousands of VFX artists that work on Marvel movies through third-party VFX studios. Marvel Studios didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from
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