SAG-AFTRA Video Game Strike: Union Says Latest AI Proposals From Studios Contain "Alarming Loopholes"
Source: Hollywood Reporter
The union positioned the two sides being "frustratingly far apart" at the negotiating table in an update to members on Tuesday.
By Katie Kilkenny March 11, 2025 9:26pm
SAG-AFTRA has been on strike against major video game studios for more than seven months, and the two sides don’t seem to be particularly close to making a deal.
That’s the impression that negotiators for the performers’ union gave to members in a message on Tuesday that warned that the companies’ latest proposals contained “alarming loopholes that will leave our members vulnerable to AI abuse” — the very issue that prompted the union’s current work stoppage in the first place.
The memo, which contained a link to a chart showing the alleged gap between the union’s and the employer’s recent proposals on AI, claimed that the labor group is “frustratingly far apart” in its proposals from the video game studios, though the message said the studios might claim otherwise.
The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to a representative for the companies that are negotiating the Interactive Media Agreement with the union for comment. Those firms include Disney Character Voices, Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Warner Bros. Games, Insomniac Games and others. In October, that bargaining group stated that the two sides had reached tentative agreements on “24 out of 25 proposals.”
A SAG-AFTRA picket on Aug. 15 in Burbank at the Disney Character Voices building. Katie Kilkenny
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sag-aftra-video-game-strike-sides-far-apart-union-says-1236161712/