At a time when studios all over the city are gutting working conditions and benefits, these workers drew a line in the sand, and said "This is as far as it goes. From here on out, we've got our say. This, we'll defend".

At a Burbank animation guild event 10 years ago: a friend spoke of putting in 10-20 unpaid hours a week. The Union boss kindly told him that if 2-3 people did the same they were stopping one other person from working - a form of scab labour. It hadn't even occurred to him to think of it like that.