Workers are hoping to receive benefits, such as health care and retirement, but also to change the way production work is seen in the industry.
But for many people, these jobs become careers.
"So people can wind up spending many years in something that's seen as a job for a young person to do for six months," said Cooper. Unionizing isn't rare in animation. Animators, actors and writers are all a part of their respective guilds. But production work has long been excluded from these unions. And as such, production workers often receive much worse benefits than the union counterparts they work with every day to get the show on the air.Family Guy
."You cannot have a show without production workers. So I think that's the moral of the story at the end of the day."