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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