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"Today leaders of both the WGA-West and WGA-East blocs of the American writers guild  voted unanimously for a deal brought to light Saturday, reports Staci D. Kramer of PaidContent.org. The details of the agreement are many. A summary assembled by our own Sean P. Aune can be viewed here.\nFurthermore, the WGA, after having approved the draft of the deal today, has set the so-call \u201Cstrike-ending\u201D vote for Tuesday. If the vote is to grant the deal final passage (complete ratification would take an estimated 10 days), as some are expecting, many of the writers of the union can look to get back to work as early as Wednesday.\nAs we documented Saturday, after receiving word of today\u2019s scheduled vote, the agreement essentially offers writers better-than-DVD flat-rate fees and percentage-based royalties, which was the basic goal set by the WGA for Web video streams and downloads.\nAll in all, this news means an impending decrease in atrocious reality programming and a resumption of scripted shows. Plus, the writers wearing oval streaks into the roadside walkways of Los Angeles and New York must have long past tired of waving picket signs and coffee-stained television scripts. Finally we find months of determination have brought justice - though of course complete with compromises - to the guilded laptop keyboardists of America."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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