LOS ANGELES, June 22 (UPI) -- The executive of the Screen Actors Guild has rejected a proposed contract covering actors who perform the voices for video game characters.
SAG Chief Executive Greg Hessinger told the Los Angeles Times the executive committee felt the proposal negotiators worked out earlier this month was inadequate.
It would have given actors a 36 percent raise over three years although it did not contain provisions for residual payments for actors in top-selling games.
Some SAG members told the newspaper the negotiators had recommended the agreement unanimously and that the 1,900 voice actors who were affected largely favored it.
Performers currently are paid a minimum of $556 per four-hour session. The 3 1/2-year agreement scrapped Tuesday would have increased the rate to $759 by 2008, with an immediate 25 percent increase to $695.
