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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Screenwriters Have Reached a Tentative Deal to End the Strike. Here's What Happens Next With the WGA and SAG [Watch (HLS stream): Screenwriters Have Reached a Tentative Deal to End the Strike. Here's What Happens Next With the WGA and SAG](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/jZgPh5qe.m3u8) (2:04)  _Published 2023-09-25. A Hollywood strike of nearly five months appears about to end as a tentative deal has been reached between unionized screenwriters and the studios, streaming services and production companies that hire them. Here's a look at the steps to come for writers, and for the actors whose strike continues._ --- Sep 25, 2023 9:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Hollywood Actors Union Reaches Tentative Deal With Studios to End Strike](/video/FKySaJi1/) ### Hollywood Actors Union Reaches Tentative Deal With Studios to End Strike [Tentative Railway Labor Deal Reached to Avert Strike, Biden Says](/video/qSHThN9f/) ### Tentative Railway Labor Deal Reached to Avert Strike, Biden Says [Tentative Railway Labor Deal Reached to Avert Strike, Biden Says](/video/9SeAYmtR/) ### Tentative Railway Labor Deal Reached to Avert Strike, Biden Says --- ## Transcript I would say, first of all, the negotiating committee has earned the trust and Goodwill of the membership. I think we all feel really great about the work they've done. So when they say they've won an exceptional. I think that makes people very excited about it, you know? So the membership will have to see, it will have to vote to ratify it. But I think we trust that this committee has has thought about the Angles and has our best interests at heart and if they want a great deal, and of course, we also think that they won that deal because of the solidarity of writers out of the picket line and the solidarity with other unions with sag-aftra with interest and it's really been a collective effort. And I think we showed the power of, you know, worker solidarity and in bringing these companies to the table, I expect again, given the Goodwill that this to go shooting committee has given the trust we have. And then I think you'll see this wrapped up in about a week to 10 days and since then, you know, that this deal will be approved pretty quickly and and will probably be able to get back to work. In about ten days, I think we're in a moment of of incredible, you know, labor power in this country are real low like labor Uprising that we haven't seen in decades. I mean, you see The Writers Guild? The actors. But also, you see, you know, the teamsters strike against UPS. You see the United Auto Workers strike against the big Detroit car makers. I mean, this has been, they've been calling it, hot labor summer, there is been the kind of unprecedented level of labor activism in this country. And, you know, something about Amazon. You think about Starbucks, all these big companies that have been making insane profits for decades now and workers? Finally saying you do we deserve to share a portion of that into have some say in in the future of our work. I think it's an important inflection points in in this country. I think, you know, we all have seen the kind of technological change that has happened over the last decade and the kind of huge wealth inequality. 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