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Led by American labour union Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland the strikers highlighted the threat of AI replacing human performers without consent or fair compensation. The protest marks a major labour action following the union's vote to strike, after 18 months of failed negotiations with major gaming companies. The global gaming industry, worth $184 billion (€170 billion) experienced a major crisis in 2023, cutting thousands of jobs.
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Last year, concerns about artificial intelligence were one of the key issues in the 118-day actors and writers' strike. Terms were eventually agreed with Hollywood studios... But video game performers still see AI as an existential crisis for performers. Indeed, Hollywood's video game performers are heading to the Warner Bros. Studios lot today to picket against what they call an unwillingness from top gaming companies to protect voice actors and motion capture workers equally against the unregulated use of AI. The protest marks the first large labour action since game voice actors and perform...
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Performers who lend their vocal talents to video games have voted to go on strike after talks broke down with the studios over the use of AI in productions. This is the second stoppage in the last year for the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), which ended its historically long 118-day walkout over film, television and streaming contracts in November last year. Why the AI demand from the Writers Guild strikes is the most important talking pointLast year’s action, paired with a strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA), also disputed the use ...
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Doctors in Portugal have gone on a two-day strike for better pay and working conditions. The strike, which began on Tuesday and continues until midnight on Wednesday, has attracted 70% support. Surgeries and consultations have been cancelled in various parts of the country, according to the National Federation of Doctors (FNAM), which called the doctors' strike. "It is quite a large number, and it represents the revolt that the doctors are feeling," said Joana Bordalo e Sa, the FNAM president. The union accuses the government of intransigence and inflexibility since the Ministry of Health has ...
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Despite a recent agreement preventing an airport strike in Paris on 17 July, one union is still threatening to walk out in the lead up to the Olympic Games. As a result, Paris Orly and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airports could be hit by industrial action on the day of the opening ceremony. The strike notice filed by the Force Ouvrière (FO) union - which represents 11.5 per cent of workers at the Paris airports - is set to begin at 5am on 26 July and last until 7am the following day. Why are Paris airport workers still threatening to strike?A deal reached last week between the CGT, CFDT and UNSA ...
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Workers at Paris airports are threatening to go on strike ahead of the start of the Olympics. Unions which represent workers for the Aéroports de Paris (ADP) - including the airports of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and Orly - are calling for strike action on Wednesday 17 July. The reason for the strike? A dispute over bonuses for staff. If the walkout by members of the CGT, CFDT, FO and UNSA unions does go ahead, it might cause disruption just nine days before the first day of the Games. Why are Paris airport workers potentially going on strike?Unions are not happy that ADP workers are not receivi...
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Multiple Romanian Tarom Airlines flights were cancelled on Monday after pilots reported being sick en masse, causing frustration and anxiety among the passengers at the Henri Coandă International Airport in Bucharest. The airline union has not announced a labour dispute, but many internal voices indicated that a strike announcement is possible. The alleged protest also caused the cancellation of the flight that was supposed to take the foreign affairs and defence ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defence to the NATO summit in Washington. "We are from Spain. We have been waiting since 5 am to ta...
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South Korea's government said it will withdraw an earlier plan to suspend striking doctors' licenses. Thousands of junior doctors went on strike in February to protest the government's plan to increase school admissions. It wasn't immediately known how many would return to work after the latest announcement. Health Minister Cho Kyoo-Hong said the government has decided not to suspend the licenses of the strikers, regardless of whether they return to their hospitals. He said the decision is meant to address a shortage of doctors treating emergency patients. The government had withdrawn its plan...
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Russia has been hit by an overnight Ukrainian drone strike in the southern region of Krasnodar. Local media reports at least one person has been killed, while Krasnodar region Governor Veniamin Kondratyev wrote on Telegram that a home had been “completely destroyed”. Other drone attacks have been reported in the neighbouring Russian republic of Adygea, as well as the central Tombov region, which have set several oil depots on fire. Russia’s Defence Ministry did not mention the drone attack in Tombov in any of its statements. Meanwhile, the ministry has released footage which it says shows Russ...
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