Writers Guild board approves tentative contract?
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Moving one step closer to ending the 4-month-old strike, the board of the Writers Guild of America unanimously blessed this morning the tentative accord reached last week with the studios.
The endorsement paves the way for writers to return to work on Wednesday, pending a vote by the guild’s membership to lift the strike order on Tuesday. The guild’s 10,500 movie and TV writers covered by this contract are expected to ratify the new three-year agreement within 10 days.
Hollywood’s top show runners, however, can return to work Monday in their capacity as producers, which includes hiring crews and getting their series ready to shoot. The strike shut down more than 60 shows and idled thousands of production workers who are anxious to return to their jobs.
Via LA Times