It’s A Deal! WGA & AMPTP Reach Tentative Agreement To End Writers Strike

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The Writers Guild has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end its strike after nearly five months.

The parties finalized the framework of the deal Sunday when they were able to untangle their stalemate over AI and writing room staffing levels. “We have reached a tentative agreement on a new 2023 MBA, which is to say an agreement in principle on all deal points, subject to drafting final contract language,” the guild told members this evening in a release, which came just after sunset and the start of the Yom Kippur holiday that many had seen deadline to wrap up deal after five days of long negotiations.

Read the guild’s full statement to its members below. Details of the WGA’s tentative agreement haven’t been released, but will be revealed by the guild in advance of the membership ratification votes.

The deal comes on the 146th day of their strike. Virtual discussions began mid-afternoon between negotiating committees for the WGA and the AMPTP.