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Video game performers approve contract to officially end nearly yearlong strike


Unionized video game performers have overwhelmingly voted to approve a new contract with their employers.

The vote, whose results were announced Wednesday night by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, ends a nearly three-year-long effort from union negotiators to obtain a new contract for the performers. Video game performers "endured a great deal of sacrifice throughout the 11-month strike," Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the SAG-AFTRA national executive director and chief negotiator said in a press release announcing the results. protections, which we will continue to build on as uses of this technology settle and evolve," Crabtree-Ireland wrote.Audrey Cooling, a spokesperson for the video game producers involved in the deal, wrote that the agreement "delivers historic wage increases, industry-leading A.I.

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