Recent reports stated that AFTRA sent out a proposed contract to its membership, with SAG doing the same. Today, Variety is reporting that SAG members have rejected the deal, despite approval by the guild's national board.
The new "atmospheric" voice work apparently drew the strongest criticism, since it would allow employers to have actors perform a maximum of 20 voices of up to 300 words at the going union rate. Many in SAG, who voted the contract down 73-42, think this is too large a concession.
"From the actor's point of view, this is a lousy contract -- particularly in the multiple voices area," said actor Peter Kwong (NARC, GoldenEye: Rogue Agent). "I'm encouraging AFTRA members to vote this down."
Game publisher representative Scott Witlin said that he wasn't sure that employers would renegotiate the SAG deal. He noted that the deal would pay actors a day rate of $782 for four hours of work and the "atmospheric" work would grant actors more opportunities.
This agreement was designed to grant parity to the deals with AFTRA and SAG. It now appears that efforts to not have a lapse in work from union actors will most likely fail.
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October 29, 2009
So basically the SAG majority wants more money? If thats the case than this would be a great time to get into voice work since apparently there will be several openings that need to be filled for the unappreciative hollywood actors/actresses.