LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The SAG-AFTRA actors’ union, which is already on strike in opposition to Hollywood movie and TV studios, will resume contract negotiations Tuesday with online game manufacturing firms, with union members overwhelmingly authorizing a strike if talks break down.
In keeping with an announcement by the union Monday night time, 98.32% of eligible union members who forged ballots voted to authorize a strike if mandatory. Almost 34,700 union members forged ballots, representing about 27.5% of the union’s eligible members.
“The result of this vote shows our membership understands the existential nature of these negotiations, and that the time is now for these companies — which are making billions of dollars and paying their CEOs lavishly – to give our performers an agreement that keeps performing in video games as a viable career,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher stated in an announcement.
Contract talks are scheduled Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with the affected online game firms — Activision Productions, Blindlight, Disney Character Voices, Digital Arts Productions, Epic Video games, Formosa Interactive, Insomniac Video games, Take 2 Productions, VoiceWorks Productions and WB Video games.
The online game settlement is separate from the contract overlaying movie and TV actors, who’re on strike amid stalled talks with the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers. The union famous that many key points are the identical, most notably compensation and protections in opposition to using synthetic intelligence.
In keeping with the union, SAG-AFTRA is looking for an 11% retroactive wage improve for online game employees and 4% will increase within the second and third years of the contract, together with obligatory relaxation breaks, on-set medics throughout stunts or hazardous work and “vocal stress protections.”
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