Five Early Reactions to the WGA's New Deal

We don't know much about what's in the WGA's new deal with the AMPTP — but what does the simple fact that it's already done tell us?

In the hours following Saturday’s surprise announcement — which arrived nearly two months before the WGA’s hard-fought 2023–26 collective bargaining agreement was set to expire, on May 30 — that the WGA and AMPTP had reached a tentative deal on a new union contract, I saw two reactions that struck me as especially representative of how the unexpected ne…