TV and film writers can return to work as soon as tomorrow, now that an agreement has been reached on waste emissions for new media

Almost fifteen weeks, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) launched the second strike by workers in their 56-year history. The union said the 0.33 percent in dollars on waste permanent Internet downloads “unacceptable”, the struggle with the demands that writers should pay royalties to the Internet at all airs of written works.

According to the Hollywood Reporter the strike which began on November 5, 2007, cut $ 2 billion into the local economy and that most of the revenue losses in the economy was borne by small business owners as florists and eating only 733 million of the $ 2 billion was lost in production costs.

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), offset by the WGA members stating that went on strike are far from hurting for money. The website shows highlighted the fact that 4434 members of the WGA in film and TV earned a total of 905.8 million in 2006. The site also says that the average number of members WGA 204295 US dollars earned in the same year and that more than half of the 4434 members earned at least $ 104750. The average Angeleno earned only $ 46000 by comparison.

A letter from the president of the WGA announced yesterday calls for a vote to end the strike and said that the vote will take place today. WGA voters will vote yes to put an immediate end to the strike. Ballots will be cast in the Theatre Guild 2pm to 6pm today. That would mean writers could return to work as soon as tomorrow. The letter also asks whether or not picketing yesterday until today was the vote.

The website WGA provide any information about the terms of the proposed contract. However, the Agence France Presse says that the new contract would pay writers a flat rate of $ 1200 per year for the one-hour episodes streaming over the Internet during the first two years. In the third year the writers get 2% of the revenue generated by the flow episode.