IATSE - Our parent organization, The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC

• IATSE locals involved in animation and CGI
• IATSE West Coast Studio Locals -- representing "below-the-line" film crafts such as camerapersons, sound technicians, editors, live-action storyboard artists, set designers, art directors, scenic artists, etc. in the southern California area

OTHER LABOR ORGANIZATIONS FOR CARTOON, ART AND FILM WORKERS

Graphic Artists Guild Foundation -- Dedicated to the artist and designer, rather than to art and design. Their mandate is to advance the economic and social interests of all professional graphic artists

• GAG Southern California Chapter

Sindacato Italiano Lavoratori del Fumetto (SILF), SLC/CGIL -- Italian national union of comic art workers (site in Italian)

The Syndicat National des Techniciens et Travailleurs de la Production Cinématographique et de la Télévision (Audiovisuel) (SNTTPCT) represents animation workers in France. They can be reached by e-mail at sntpct@infonie.fr.

Other artist organizations

LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS

AFL-CIO -- The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

Writers Guild of America, west and the Animation Writers' Caucus

Directors Guild of America

Screen Actors Guild

LaborNet -- A community of labor unions, activists, and organizations using computer networks for information-sharing and collaboration with the intent of increasing the human rights and economic justice of workers

Union Resources Network -- Index of local, national and international labor union Web sites and email addresses

U. S. Department of Labor

Trade Union Congress -- Equivalent organization to the AFL-CIO in the U. K.