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‘League of Legends’ Added to Actors’ Video Game Strike as SAG-AFTRA Accuses Producer Formosa Interactive of Unfair Labor Practices
After previously being exempt from inclusion in the ongoing video game actors strike, Riot Games' "League of Legends" has been added to the list of titles.
The unilateral and surreptitious transfer of union work to a ‘non-union’ shell company is an impermissible and appalling attempt to evade a strike action and destroy performers’ rights under labor law.” terms that have been agreed to by the film, television, streaming, and music industries, as well as more than 90 other game developers,” SAG-AFTRA’s national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said in a statement Tuesday. Instead of championing the union performers who bring their immense talent and experience to beloved characters, decision-makers at Formosa have chosen to try to evade and abandon them.
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