Writers Strike Is Over

The three month long strike that stopped work on dozens of TV shows, disrupted movie production, and turned the usually star-studded Golden Globes show into a news conference has ended. The Writers Guild of America members voted today to end their strike that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill.
In a letter to it's members, WGA presidents Patric M. Verrone and Michael Winship tells writers to plan to be at work tomorrow if they were employed at the beginning of the strike.
"At the end of the day, everybody won. It was a fair deal and one that the companies can live with, and it recognizes the large contribution that writers have made to the industry," said Leslie Moonves, chief executive officer of CBS Corp., who was among the media executives who helped broker a deal after talks between the guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the trade group, collapsed in acrimony.
The Academy Awards can now go on without the previous threat of picketing or boycotts.
Photo: Monica Almeida/The New York Times
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