Rabat – The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has announced a much-anticipated preliminary deal with Hollywood studio representative group the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), an agreement that seeks to put an end to the months-long strikes that disrupted film and television production.
The WGA said on Sunday that the deal was made possible thanks to “the enduring solidarity of WGA members and extraordinary support of our union siblings who joined us on the picket lines for over 146 days.”
The union has been on strike due to disagreements over several issues, including compensation, and the use of AI tools to write scripts.
The AMPTP has been representing a group of studios, streaming services, and producers throughout five months of negotiations.
The WGA, which represents over 11,000 film and television writers, agreed with the AMPTP on a three-year contract agreement to end the crisis. The deal still needs to be greenlit by the guild’s committee board.
The agreement would mean an official end to the months of protests and strikes, Al Jazeera reported today.
Despite the significance of the agreement, the deal will not see a return to normal to Hollywood due to ongoing strikes by the SAG-AFTRA actors union.
The American actors’ union SAG-AFTRA went on strike in July due to an ongoing labor dispute with AMPTP.
The union is campaigning what they described as a “system where those in charge of multibillion-dollar
media conglomerates are rewarded for exploiting workers.”
