Court docs show role of Pixar and Dreamworks Animation in Silicon Valley wage-fixing cartel
REVEALED: Court docs show role of Pixar and Dreamworks Animation in Silicon Valley wage-fixing cartel
http://pando.com/2014/07/07/revealed-court-docs-show-role-of-pixar-and-dreamworks-animation-in-silicon-valley-wage-fixing-cartel/
Just when the tech giants behind the Silicon Valley “Techtopus” wage fixing cartel thought the worst was behind them, US District Judge Lucy Koh has thrown a surprise twist — refusing for now to give her seal of approval to the $324 million class action settlement.
Judge Koh has suggested the agreed settlement might be too low, but there are whispers that Koh is frustrated at being denied the chance to preside over what would have been one of the most interesting and significant Big Tech court cases ever (a frustration shared by this particular journalist and at least one of the plaintiffs in the case, Michael Devine).
But while the class action suit continues to grind towards a conclusion, there remain plenty of revelations as yet unreported from the depositions and court documents.
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We’ve already reported on the shocking testimony and private email exchanges between tech superstars like Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt, but actually some of the most alarming and revealing testimonies in this case, during the pre-trial period, belong to the two initiators: George Lucas, the Obi-Wan Kenobi of the wage fixing cartel; and his Pixar counterpart, Ed Catmull. Through their testimonies, we learn the names of other major and minor Hollywood studios that are alleged to have been party to the same illegal cartel, including Disney itself, after it became Pixar’s parent company in January 2006 — and Dreamworks Animation, whose name repeatedly pops up as a participant in depositions and emails.
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Yay! So now that the majority of VFX work has been off shored and left Los Angeles now we find out our wages were suppressed, too.
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