interactive media

The larger interactive media agreement between the union and the game companies expired in November 2022.

The so-called Interactive Media Agreement between the union and top game developers — including Activision, Electronic Arts, Insomniac, Blindlight, Warner Bros. and Disney — expired in November 2022.

SAG-AFTRA has been bargaining with the video game companies for a new agreement covering interactive media since the contract expired in 2022.

This became the most contentious aspect of the negotiations and led 98 percent of SAG-AFTRA’s Interactive Media caucus to approve a strike-authorization vote in September.

The announcement comes nearly a year after more than 30,000 union members voted 98% in favor of authorizing a strike while bargaining for a new Interactive Media Agreement.