The National Council of Hollywood Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) announced this Friday that its members will vote when they are ready Expand your strike to the video game industry in the event that the negotiations with entrepreneurs in the industry, which begin on September 26th, do not proceed satisfactorily.
The chairman of the union, Fran Drescherassured in a statement that talks on a new agreement were at a “stalemate” and that the Vote on strike authorization was necessary to make progress on salary increases and Protection against artificial intelligence.
What will the Actors Guild decide?
The unanimous decision comes almost a year after Interactive Media Agreement of the union should be extended “beyond” its expiration date to allow for further discussion on the critical conditions of its members’ needs.
“Now we are once again faced with greed lack of respect from business people“he defined Drescher which highlighted the danger that artificial intelligence poses to the work of its members.
“Without contractual protection, Employers are asking actors to unwittingly contribute to the extinction of their art and their livelihoods,” the union’s chief negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, said in the same document.
Members will vote on strike authorization from Sept. 5-25, meaning that if a majority is reached, the SAG-AFTRA National Council could declare a work stoppage if video game companies don’t “negotiate fairly.”
About the companies that would be affected They meet due to a strike Epic games (“Fourteen days“), Disney Character Voices Inc., “Blindlight” (“Halo”), “WB Games Inc.” (“Mortal Kombat 11“) and six other companies.
Currently, the interpreters’ union has been on strike since July 14 last year after failing to reach an agreement with the interpreters’ union Alliance of Film and Television Producers (AMPTP) to enter into an agreement covering television, cinema and streaming.
SAG-AFTRA is calling for the same raises for video game actors as for film and television actors, “a retroactive increase of 11% and increases of 4% in the second and third years of the agreement.”