Writers Approve The Contract

My time has been completely zapped in the couple of weeks since the Writers went back to work.  In that time, however, the contract was officially ratified, meaning the hardliners will have to wait for at least three years before plunging us all back into financial disaster.

But they needn't fret -- SAG lurks on the horizon.

The general feeling seems to be that SAG won't strike, but it obviously remains a very real possibility.

I haven't had a chance to write up my post-mortem on the Strike itself, and this remains something I look forward to doing (so check back!).  In brief, though, I -- like so many others -- believe that the Writers contract was achievable without going on strike.  And if not entirely so, then at least close enough that the costs of the strike far outweigh the modest improvements that the strike actually earned.  

Indeed, a negotiation which hadn't gone nuclear might have resulted in an even better contract -- think of the affordability of a $2000/yr internet residual if the Studios didn't have strike losses to recoup.

Now that the Strike is over however, I will assume that my writers are part of the 93% who voted to end the catastrophe.  I'm happy that we're all back to work (or getting there).