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On July 26, 2024, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) initiated a labor strike involving the union’s voice actors and motion capture artists against American video game companies signed to the union’s Interactive Media Agreements over failed renegotiation terms of the contract that had expired in November 2022.
In a video released on May 30, 2023, SAG-AFTRA members Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jean Smart, and Kumail Nanjiani appealed to members to vote to strike but reserved that a vote for strike authorization was solely a bargaining tool, not a vote to order an immediate strike. [27] On June 5, 2023, SAG-AFTRA approved the strike authorization by a 98% ...
This list of Hollywood strikes names the industrial strikes organized by Hollywood trade unions such as SAG-AFTRA (formerly the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)), the Writers Guild of America (WGA), and the Directors Guild of America (DGA).
SAG-AFTRA’s strike against major video game publishers will continue, as the actors union has extended contract negotiations with the employers. This comes after an inability to resolve the ...
SAG-AFTRA’s strike, which began on Friday morning (14 July), has already had an immediate impact on the industry. Among the biggest franchises to feel the effects is Marvel’s Deadpool 3, whose ...
Whereas last year’s SAG-AFTRA strike against Hollywood studios was organized by company, the video game actors strike, which has protections against generative A.I. as its main sticking point ...
It was the first such organized strike within the video game industry and the first voice actors' strike in 17 years, as well as the first strike within the merged SAG-AFTRA organization. As of April 23, 2017, it became the longest strike within SAG, surpassing the 95-day 1980 Emmy Awards strike , and the 2000 commercials strike .
SAG-AFTRA officialized its strike on July 14, joining WGA writers already 10 weeks into their own work stoppage. The move marked the first time in 63 years that Hollywood's writers and actors ...