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months-long strike that began in May and has revealed the terms and details of its tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).“Today, our negotiating committee, WGAW Board and WGAE council all voted unanimously to recommend the agreement. The strike ends at 12:01AM,” the Writers Guild of America West wrote on X.The WGA reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP.
Today, our Negotiating Committee, WGAW Board, and WGAE Council all voted unanimously to recommend the agreement. The strike ends at 12:01 am.
Check out our deal at https://t.co/c0ULMXhPL7. #WGAStrong pic.twitter.com/7z8kw9xI1p— Writers Guild of America West (@WGAWest) September 27, 2023Besides announcing the end of the strike – which now clocks in at 148 days – the WGA has also shared documents detailing the terms of its agreement with the AMPTP and studios in Hollywood.A seven-page document was distributed to WGA’s 11,500 film and TV writers and has since been shared online.
It details increases in wages and residuals, as well as the union’s demands for minimum staff in writers rooms, bonus payments based on streaming shows’ success and protections against the use of AI. See the full document here.The agreement will be in effect from September 25, 2023 until May 1, 2026 – giving the WGA two-and-a-half years to work under the agreed-upon terms.The three-year deal outlines a 12.5 per cent pay increase starting with 5 per cent upon the contract’s ratification.
For the following two years, writers will receive 4 and 3.5 per cent increases in the respective years.In addition to raises, writers secured a 76 per cent increase in their foreign streaming residuals. Writers will also receive a “viewership-based streaming
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EXCLUSIVE: “This strike was way too long, because the companies took so long to get serious,” WGA West President Meredith Stiehm declared tonight of the nearly 150 days the Writers Guild was out on the picket lines before a tentative agreement was reached on September 24.
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It’s been over 146 days since the Writer’s Guild of America went on strike after failing to come to a new contract with Hollywood’s studios, networks, and streamers. Over four months the AMPTP, which represents the Hollywood media companies, not only saw the WGA picket their studio lots and headquarters, but the Screen Actors Guild joined them.
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WGA and Hollywood’s major studios are in the final phase of hammering out a three-year contract that will bring an end to one of the longest strikes in Hollywood history. Legal representatives for labor and management were said to be huddling on the fine print of language in complicated contract issues such as the use of generative artificial intelligence and groundbreaking elements for the WGA’s minimum basic agreement, such as a formula for a minimum staff guarantee for episodic TV and a “success-based” residual from subscription platforms that is designed to funnel more money into the WGA’s pension and health funds. The nitty gritty details of the terms around the AI proposal has been one of the final hurdles to overcome, multiple sources said.
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WGA picket lines on the West Coast swelled Friday in response to the call from guild leaders for a strong turnout on the streets as labor and management negotiators gathered for a third consecutive day of talks aimed at ending the more than four-month-long strike. In Hollywood, Netflix and Paramount saw big crowds of WGA and SAG-AFTRA pickets gathered by 9 a.m. The past week has been chock full of rumors spread by social media and private online and text channels that a deal is in the offing.
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