SAG and AFTRA Tentative Pact get game companies
The agreement – which enters into force upon ratification and shall remain in full force until March 30, 2011 – achieving parity between AFTRA and SAG and contracts include contemporary deadlines March 30, 2011Los Angeles (October 2, 2009) – Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) announced today that they have reached tentative agreements with game companies on new contracts.
Moreover, the contracts provide a wage increase of 3 percent of ratifying the Convention for the SAG, which SAG wages parity with AFTRA, and another 2.5 percent increase April 1 2010, for the unions. Both agreements contain increases in benefit contributions and liquidated damages provision to encourage employers to give notice of vocal work stressful
The cap applies only to the artists who charge more than $ 125,000 for a single producer in a single year for work done in the same game franchiseThe contracts also set a new performance category for “air voices” that is designed to increase job opportunities for artists union by allowing producers the flexibility to record voices of several minor characters in one sitting. The agreements also establish a cap of $ 125,000 in contributions to the AFTRA Health and Retirement and SAG Pension and Health funds.
The interim agreements must be approved by Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors and the Administrative Committee of AFTRA, which will meet in coming weeks
Highlights of these agreements include