Our strike-beat reporter, Hooper X, will be chiming in with his official report shortly, but the legendary Writers Guild of America Strike is now over. A vote was passed at 7 p.m. today to end it with a 92.5% endorsement. Here’s the statement from WGA West president Patrick Verrone…
“The strike is over,” he said. “Our membership has voted, and writers can go back to work. This was not a strike we wanted, but one we had to conduct in order to win jurisdiction and establish appropriate residuals for writing in new media and on the Internet. Those advances now give us a foothold in the digital age. Rather than being shut out of the future of content creation and delivery, writers will lead the way as TV migrates to the Internet and platforms for new media are developed.”
Source Link: Variety
February 12th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
February 12th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Great to hear! Congrats all you writers out there!
February 12th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
THANK GOODNESS!!!
EVERYBODY WINS!!!
now start making TRANSFORMERS 2!!!
February 12th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
its about timeeee
February 12th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Finally, now maybe Scrubs… nevermind… poor Scrubs. Hopefully Bill Lawrence has something to surprise us with.
February 13th, 2008 at 3:47 am
Par-tay. Hope the deal is fair and writers are content. Everyone, keep the beards.
February 13th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Woooot!!
Now go finish the Lost season!! NOW!!!
February 13th, 2008 at 8:52 am
GEAH!!!!!
Now let the news start pouring in!!!!
GDT on the The Hobbit? Let’s hear it!!
February 13th, 2008 at 9:23 am
You mean someone actually wrote Transformers? I thought it was just created by some marketing firm. One giant commercial.