Walt Disney Pictures VFX workers file for unionization

Um we're dealing with exactly the same issues as SAG um over here with our negotiations and they have our full solidarity with their claim and they really have been boxed into *** corner by the producers. Nobody uh goes on strike uh willingly or um with, with, with great enthusiasm. Um But clearly after the first three or four days that, that, that their members are strongly determined to win the big impact over here, you are likely to start seeing in the coming months if the dispute becomes protracted, um S *** will be less willing to agree and we're entirely supportive of that position um agenda permitting their members to work abroad. Um And that's what has to happen. And so there will be *** slow reduction in the amount of American talent that's available for production over here. Um And the suggestion which I know has been in some parts of the world that uh uh production could move from the United States to Europe or the UK. Um And that we would tolerate that. Well, that's not gonna happen and we're gonna use every legal means possible to prevent it. So the longer the dispute goes on the bigger the effect that people will see. But the people who will suffer the most from that will be the producers. Hey, hey, Bread Green has got to go, hey, hey, the producers could end this dispute tomorrow. Um That, that, you know, s *** doesn't want to be on strike. Um But they've got *** clear set of asks, *** clear set of demands and both sides managed to move quite constructively in the early days of the negotiations. I was over there. I, I saw that myself but there has to be *** point where we say, well, if not now, when, um, and it's very clear that billionaire producers could afford to meet that claim perfectly reasonably. So it's really down to them. Um, and yeah, I mean, I don't know whether it will go on for weeks or months in all honesty, but we are prepared for the long fall and frankly, it, this, this dispute has been going on for less than four days now and we've already seen it. It's sort of devastating consequences.