UPDATED with more details: SAG-AFTRA and the major video game companies have reached a tentative agreement to end the longest strike in the union’s history. Up until this walkout, SAG’s 2000 commer…
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The strike was launched October 21, 2016 against 11 major companies including Electronic Arts, WB Games and Activision. “The bonus payments we have now are significantly larger now than what we had 11 months ago,” he said. “And the existence of additional payments beyond your session fee is in the video game world for good, both in our high-budget and independent promulgated agreements. Those are the victories that this strike has brought us.”
“The new transparency provisions will enhance the bargaining power of our members’ representatives by requiring the companies to disclose the code name of project, its genre, whether the game is based on previously published intellectual property and whether the performer is reprising a prior role,” he said.
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