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SAG-AFTRA Chief Contracts Officer Ray Rodriguez On Calling Video Game Strike Day 1 Of Comic-Con: “We Had Exhausted Our Options”


SAG-AFTRA Chief Contracts Officer Ray Rodriguez spoke with Deadline about the strike against the Interactive Media Agreement

The strike went into effect on Friday and, within hours, SAG-AFTRA held a press conference at San Diego Comic-Con(which had already been scheduled alongside a video game voice actors panel for fans) to discuss the issues they’ve faced over the course of the negotiating process. In the interview below, Rodriguez spoke with Deadline about why the negotiating committee felt now was the time to finally call a strike and what provisions would be necessary in order to make a deal. We’ve been back and forth with multiple drafts of proposals [and] really felt that we had exhausted our options for an amicable resolution and came to the conclusion that we weren’t going to get where we needed to go in this negotiation without a strike.

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