Potential vote on WGA strike ending on Sunday…
The Writer’s Guild of America posted a summary of the proposed deal that they were offerred on their website hours before members attended meetings on the East and West Coasts this Saturday afternoon.
Guild leaders couched the new deal as one that “protects a future in which the Internet becomes the primary means of both content creation and delivery.”
To View the Deal Summary press HERE.If members of the Writers Guild of America react favorably to the proposed deal, the guild’s board could vote Sunday to cease the three month old strike. And the film and television industries can potentially be up and running again on Monday.
Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony will not be picketed by the union.The WGA negotiated deal is similar to the DGA deal. It includes compensation for ad-supported streaming and doesn’t kick in until after a window of 17 to 24 days of “promotional” use by the studios.
Writers get a maximum $1,200 flat fee for streamed programs in the deal’s first two years and then get a percentage of a distributor’s gross in year three — the last point an improvement on the directors deal, which remains at the flat payment rate.
WGA leaders Patric Verrone and Michael Winship said in an e-mail to members:
“Much has been achieved, and while this agreement is neither perfect nor perhaps all that we deserve for the countless hours of hard work and sacrifice, our strike has been a success.”
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