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SAG-AFTRA Leaders on How Hollywood Studios Could Avert a Video Game Strike — and Why the Guild Supports Game Developers Unionizing
SAG-AFTRA is trying to avoid another strike, but the actors union nonetheless has bones to pick with video game companies in new contract negotiations.
Among SAG-AFTRA’s key sticking points is trying to get the gaming companies to agree to protections against use of generative AI, which was one of the biggest issues the union fought hard for in its talks with TV and film studios last year. “Obviously, strikes are last resort for us, always, because they cause great disruption, not only to our own members, to the companies, but to other workers and other people who are part of the industry,” SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland told Variety in an interview during this week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. While all of this is going on, there is rising talk among the employees at video game companies about unionizing amid widespread layoffs in the industry, something SAG-AFTRA’s Elmaleh — who has been deep in the trenches on the voice actor negotiations — fully supports.
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