It’s Official: Hollywood Writers Strike Ends Minutes Ago
Email from Guild Prezes:
To Our Fellow Members:
On Tuesday, members of the Writers Guilds East and West voted by a 92.5%
margin to lift the restraining order that was invoked on November 5th. The
strike is over.
Writing can resume immediately. If you were employed when the strike began,
you should plan to report to work on Wednesday. If you’re not employed at
an office or other work site, call or e-mail your employer that you are
resuming work. If you have been told not to report to work or resume your
services, we recommend that you still notify your employer in writing of
your availability to do so. Questions concerning return-to-work issues
should be directed to the WGAW legal department at 323.782.4521 or the
WGAE’s assistant executive director Ann Toback at 212-767-7823.
The decision to begin this strike was not taken lightly and was only made
after no other reasonable alternative was possible. We are profoundly aware
of the economic loss these fourteen weeks have created not only for our
members but so many other colleagues who work in the television and motion
picture industries. Nonetheless, with the establishment of the WGA
jurisdiction over new media and residual formulas based on distributor’s
gross revenue (among other gains) we are confident that the results are a
significant achievement not only for ourselves but the entire creative
community, now and in the future.
We hope to build upon the extraordinary energy, ingenuity, and solidarity
that were generated by your hard work during the strike.
Over the next weeks and months, we will be in touch with you to discuss and
develop ways we can use our unprecedented unity to make our two guilds
stronger and more effective than ever.
Now that the strike has ended, there remains the vote to ratify the new
contract. Ballots and information on the new deal, both pro and con, will
be mailed to you shortly. You will be able to return those ballots via mail
or at a membership meeting to be held Monday, February 25th, 2008, at times
and locations to be determined.
Thank you for making it possible. As ever, we are all in this together.
Best,
Patric M. Verrone
President, WGAW
Michael Winship
President, WGAE
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Good for them, now can they write a story where a communist doesnt win the presidency this year?
February 12th, 2008 at 8:56 pmYAWN . . .
February 12th, 2008 at 9:26 pmOh, good … Now the economy can get back on track … prices at the pump will come down … stocks can shoot back up … cancer will be cured … Jimmy Hoffa’s mummified body will be found … we’ll finally make “contact” … Vlad will come crawling back to me, weeping on his knees …
February 12th, 2008 at 10:31 pmI guess I’m not very perceptive. While these feckless, I mean creative, folks have been out on strike, I hadn’t even noticed they had been gone.
This would rate on the scale of personal importance at just below the annoucement of Madonna’s next scheduled music tour.
February 13th, 2008 at 6:25 amThank God I can go back to sitting in front of my TV. Now I don’t have to worry about what is going on in the rest of my world or enjoy the beauty of the outdoors anymore.
The rest of you just keep doing what you are doing and don’t worry about me… I’ll just sit here and be a passive little taxpayer.
Move along, nothing to see here…
February 13th, 2008 at 6:29 amToo late I have already sold out and began watching every “reality” show out there, especially that Millionaire Matchmaker on Bravo, it’s groovy!
I understand that some of them seeing big money being made by others lead to resentment and jealousy, but on average a vast majority of steadily working writers, i.e. on TV shows in production, were at the time of the strike making by and large a hell of a lot more money than the average Joe America, and many of them were just annoyed about the potential of re-runs.
So get back to work and begin to pump out the same America bashing leftist drivel that you are so fortunate to be able to produce in the greatest country in the world, these UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
February 13th, 2008 at 7:30 am
More depraved writing coming to a living room near you.
February 13th, 2008 at 9:20 am