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27 Sep 2023, 11:00
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Hollywood's writers strike is officially at an end, as leaders of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) have agreed that writers may return to work from today (27th September).
The news comes after the union’s leaders approved to put an agreement which had been negotiated with the studios, streamers and producers represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) to all WGA members for a ratification vote.
News of the agreement was revealed on Sunday evening, with the WGA negotiators involved in making it possible describing it then as a “tentative” deal.
But in an email sent to all of the WGA’s membership, the agreement was also described as being “exceptional” due to the “meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership” it was hoped it would provide.
More details have since been released, revealing that the writers have won concessions including getting the studios to agree on providing residual payments for shows on streaming platforms, setting a minimum number of writers for pre-development writers ‘mini rooms’, and creating guidelines for the use of AI in the workplace.
Picketing came to an end on Sunday evening, but writers were asked to remain on strike until further notice from the WGA's leadership.
Now that they have been told the strike is over and allowed to return to work, it is expected that the late-night and daytime television talk shows which were taken off air in the US due to the strike will return.
However, as the actors strike continues, the majority of TV and film production affected by the strikes will remain in shutdown.
Production on most projects will only be able to return to normal after the studios, streamers and producers represented by AMPTP return to the negotiating table with SAG-AFTRA in order to create a deal which hopefully similarly satisfies the demands of the actors who remain on strike.
This year’s writers and actors strikes are some of the longest periods of industrial action in the industry’s history, with the writers strike lasting just under 150 days in total. Writers have been encouraged by the WGA to remain in solidarity with the actors on their picket lines as their strike continues.
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