Actors union SAG-AFTRA has been placing for a brand new movie and TV contract for weeks now, after becoming a member of the Writers Guild Of America strike, which started in Could. That strike could quickly lengthen to online game voice actors, because the union’s board has despatched a vote to all members forward of an upcoming negotiation.
The union introduced the vote on its official web site, in preparation for what the submit calls “forthcoming bargaining dates with signatory online game firms.” The earlier contract was prolonged almost a yr in the past, in keeping with SAG-AFTRA, and new negotiators are set to start on September 26.
The “signatory online game firms” cited within the SAG-AFTRA submit are as follows:
- Activision Productions Inc.
- Blindlight LLC.
- Disney Character Voices Inc.
- Digital Arts Productions Inc.
- Epic Video games, Inc.
- Formosa Interactive LLC.
- Insomniac Video games Inc.
- Take Two Productions Inc.
- VoiceWorks Productions Inc.
- Warner Bros Video games Inc.
“Right here we go once more! Now our Interactive (Video Sport) Settlement is at a stalemate too,” SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher stated within the official press launch. “As soon as once more we face employer greed and disrespect. As soon as once more synthetic intelligence is placing our members in jeopardy of decreasing their alternative to work. And as soon as once more, SAG-AFTRA is standing as much as tyranny on behalf of its members.”
Phrases being requested for by SAG-AFTRA for online game actors embrace the identical price will increase as movie and TV actors, job safety from AI, and a compulsory five-minute-per-hour relaxation interval for on-camera efficiency seize actors.
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