Strike Watch: The Strike Is Over

Yesterday, WGA members voted by a 92.5% margin to lift the November 5th restraining order, effectively ending the strike. ”Writing,” write WGA East and West Presidents Michael Winship and Patric M. Verrone in a joint email, ”can resume immediately.” Further:

”The decision to begin this strike was not taken lightly and was only made after no other reasonable alternative was possible. We are profoundly aware of the economic loss these fourteen weeks have created not only for our members but so many other colleagues who work in the television and motion picture industries.

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