Now I begin the rejoicing | A Tentative Deal in the Strike is Official
I’ve been keeping up with strike news via United Hollywood.com, a blog put up by members of the WGA. I was thrilled this morning to find this statement on their website:
This was sent early this morning to membership. The delay in publishing the deal points, we’ve learned, was because the companies dragged their feet enshrining some of the final details in an attempt to renege on some of what they had promised. The last-minute fight to keep that from happening took until late last night.
To Our Fellow Members,
We have a tentative deal.
It is an agreement that protects a future in which the Internet becomes the primary means of both content creation and delivery. It creates formulas for revenue-based residuals in new media, provides access to deals and financial data to help us evaluate and enforce those formulas, and establishes the principle that, “When they get paid, we get paid.”
The full letter is available at the link above. The agreement will still need to be approved by the WGA’s membership, but it sure sounds like an end to this strike is really happening. Now my tiny, little happy dance has turned into a full-blown celebration!
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