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SAG-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry (www.eurogamer.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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[–] 33 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but since this strike is against certain companies and not some entity that represents the entire industry like it does for movies and television, that means that other individual companies who come to an agreement can still hire these people, right? If so...imagine if we had that in movies and television.

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  • [–] 51 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    We do. A24, for instance, is still making a couple movies by agreeing to work under the proposed terms by SAG. As far as I know, no one else has made such agreements yet. The more of such exceptions that get made, the weaker the AMPTP's position will get.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Dropout.tv (formerly CollegeHumour) is also an unstruck company.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    One more reason to love dropout!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Because they have a different contract for work not covered by the current strike? That seems kind of a weird take, especially since they thought the strike did apply to them originally and they shut down for several weeks until the lawyers got together and said, oh no, you have a different type of agreement.

    It's not like they changed or updated their contract to become exempt. SAG just went, oh, your business doesn't fall into the terms of the strike so you don't have to strike with the rest of us.

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