SAG-AFTRA seeks approval for strike motion towards online game corporations
SAG-AFTRA has introduced {that a} unanimous choice throughout its nationwide board will see a strike authorization vote despatched to all of its greater than 160,000 members between September 5 and September 25. The vote comes after the union has reached a stalemate in negotiations with Activision, EA, Epic Video games, Insomniac, Take-Two, WB Video games, and extra.
It has been nearly a yr since SAG-AFTRA’s Interactive Media Settlement contract with the online game corporations expired, which was put in place to barter “wages that sustain with inflation,” corresponding to an 11% wage improve to online game performer charges, and “protections towards unrestrained use of synthetic intelligence.” In response to SAG-AFTRA, “the businesses have failed to handle these wants” all through the negotiations, and as such, plans to have a strike authorization in place for when it subsequent bargains with the businesses on September 26.
“Right here we go once more! Now our Interactive (Video Recreation) Settlement is at a stalemate too. 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,” SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher stated. “The overlap of those two SAG-AFTRA contracts isn’t any coincidence however slightly a predictable problem impacting our trade in addition to others all around the world. The illness of greed is spreading like wildfire, able to burn employees out of their livelihoods and people out of their usefulness. We at SAG-AFTRA say no! Not on our watch!”
“We’re negotiating in good religion and hope to achieve a mutually helpful deal as quickly as doable,” Audrey Cooling, a spokesperson for the ten online game corporations, stated in a press release to the BBC.