More Than 250 Picketers Protest Outside EA's Offices for SAG-AFTRA Strike

More Than 250 Picketers Protest Exterior EA'southward Offices for SAG-AFTRA Strike

SAG-AFTRA, the Screen Actors Lodge‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, proclaimed a strike confronting select videogame companies starting on Oct 21st.

According to SAG-AFTRA, subsequently years of concerted effort video game employers refused to reach a "fair deal" during negotiations with the federation. The primal bug are contingent compensation, vocal stress, transparency and stunt coordinators; the companies afflicted are:

Activision Publishing, Inc.
Blindlight, LLC Corps of Discovery Films
Disney Graphic symbol Voices, Inc.
Electronic Arts Productions, Inc.
Formosa Interactive, LLC
Insomniac Games, Inc.
Interactive Assembly, Inc.
Take 2 Interactive Software
VoiceWorks Productions, Inc.
WB Games, Inc.

Yesterday, more than 250 picketers gathered outside Electronic Arts' offices in Playavista, California. According to Borderline, SAG-AFTRA's president Gabrielle Carteris said:

We are willing to stay out every bit long as it takes – not only the performers, but the union itself.

As it turns out, the two parties had really reached an agreement on near outstanding bug with the exception of secondary compensation, which remains a point of contention peculiarly when it comes to the most successful games. The wedlock offered two options:

In other words, an employer would have the option to buy out an role player by paying a bonus upfront or, if they adopt, they would accept the option to pay a bonus after the game releases, if the game happens to sell more than than ii million units. The employers have refused to consider this pick, excluding games from spousal relationship talent if they are unable to afford the upfront bonus construction.

Ray Rodriguez, SAG-AFTRA's Principal Contracts Officer, added:

It'south of import to us to see progress on the event of secondary compensation. In the spirit of compromise, we made it an option, but they're taking advantage of that to make information technology await similar we are having a dispute over terminology, when it fact our dispute is near the biggest dispute these parties have had in the 20-plus years that this contract has existed.

We'll keep y'all updated on the outcome of this strike.