The longest strike in SAG-AFTRA’s history came to a close early Saturday morning with union negotiators reaching an agreement with 11 major video game companies over compensation, transparency, and vocal stress reduction.
In a statement released yesterday, SAG-AFTRA outlined the nature of the tentative agreement.
While not reaching all of their intended goals, negotiators secured bonus pay for voice actors, bolstered the amount of information an actor receives before arriving at a gig, and opened the door for continued attention to the issue of vocal stress on actors. The union did not secure intended royalty payments for actors when a project sells copies at the 2, 4, 6, and 8 million levels.
“This is an important advance in this critical industry space,” says recently re-elected SAG-AFTRA president, Gabrielle Carteris. “We secured a number of gains including, for the first time, a secondary payment structure, which was one of the members’ key concerns.”
SAG-AFTRA states actors will now receive a $75 bonus payment for the first recording session, and then a total of $2,100 after 10 sessions. The definition of the term “session” has yet to be defined.
“The bonus payments we have are
The longest strike in SAG-AFTRA’s history came to a close early Saturday morning with union negotiators reaching an agreement with 11 major video game companies over compensation, transparency, and vocal stress reduction.
In a statement released yesterday, SAG-AFTRA outlined the nature of the tentative agreement.
While not reaching all of their intended goals, negotiators secured bonus pay for voice actors, bolstered the amount of information an actor receives before arriving at a gig, and opened the door for continued attention to the issue of vocal stress on actors. The union did not secure intended royalty payments for actors when a project sells copies at the 2, 4, 6, and 8 million levels.
“This is an important advance in this critical industry space,” says recently re-elected SAG-AFTRA president, Gabrielle Carteris. “We secured a number of gains including, for the first time, a secondary payment structure, which was one of the members’ key concerns.”
SAG-AFTRA states actors will now receive a $75 bonus payment for the first recording session, and then a total of $2,100 after 10 sessions. The definition of the term “session” has yet to be defined.
“The bonus payments we have are
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