AFTRA extends video-game agreement

November 12, 2008 Terms of the extension for the union’s collective-bargaining agreement covering performers in video games include a bump in compensation and contributions to AFTRA’s health and retirement plans. AFTRA's chief negotiator for the contract, Mathis Dunn Jr., said the extension allows the union to continue its work with sister union SAG on wages and working-conditions meetings for their commercials contracts, currently under way. Los Angeles labor attorney Howard Fabrick, who reps the video-game publishers with his Akin Gump colleague Scott Witlin, said the extension also ensures that all games that go into production through the end of 2009 will be able to be completed without disruption.

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