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🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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John, Drew and Megana read through the details of the WGA’s Tentative Agreement to see what was initially proposed and what was ultimately won.
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0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome. My name is John August. My name is Drew Marquardt, and my name is Megan |
0:05.4 | Arow. |
0:06.4 | Megan is back. This is a script notes side cast a short episode about one thing, which is |
0:10.2 | the email that Megan is looking at on her phone. Yes, I am absolutely giddy. Megan |
0:16.3 | Arow, if you would please read or loud from the email that you're seeing. |
0:19.2 | Okay, so the subject is negotiations update end of the strike deal points member meetings. |
0:25.4 | So the email says, dear members, as we reported on Sunday, the WGA reached a tentative agreement |
0:30.5 | with the lines of motion picture and television producers on a new three year minimum basic |
0:35.7 | agreement. Today, your negotiating committee, the WGA West Board and WGA East Council all |
0:42.5 | voted unanimously to recommend the agreement. It will now go to both guilds' memberships |
0:47.7 | for a ratification vote. Eligible voters will receive ballot and materials for the vote, |
0:52.8 | which will take place from October 2nd to October 9th. The WGA West Board and WGA East |
0:58.6 | Council also voted unanimously to lift the restraining order and to end the strike as |
1:03.8 | of 12 o 1 a.m. PT or 301 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, September 27th. This allows writers |
1:11.8 | to return to work during the ratification process, but does not affect the membership's |
1:15.9 | right to make a final determination on contract approval. Now that we have finalized the |
1:20.9 | memorandum of agreement, we can share details of this exceptional deal with gains and |
1:25.4 | protections for members in every sector of the business. |
1:28.2 | All right. So we'll stop there. So we're saying that the restraining order and end of |
1:31.8 | the strike happens at 12 o 1 a.m. Pacific 301 Eastern time Wednesday, which is tomorrow. |
1:37.4 | So we're recording this at 5 o'clock on Tuesday night. So in seven hours and one minute, |
1:41.6 | the strike's over. Wow. Yeah. It feels weird. Yeah. It does feel weird. So people could go |
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