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GamesBeat Summit 2024: The power of unions
At GamesBeat Summit 2024, IGDA's Jakin Vela and actor Zeke Alton spoke about the power of unionization and how it can help game workers.
Unions have become more common in the games industry over the last five years, forming at places like Activision, ZeniMax, Sega, and more as developers seek to negotiate better pay and workplace policies. As a member of SAG-AFTRA’s interactive media negotiating committee, Alton has a lot of experience with talking to publishers about establishing livable wages and protections for voice actors, particularly with the rise of AI. “And the people with the purse strings are accountants and IP lawyers and what I call robber barons, and their job is to plunder enough money out of this company for the shareholders and then when it’s done, they take a golden parachute and bounce.
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