Writers Guild Ratifies Four-Year Contract Deal With Studios

Source: Hollywood Reporter

More than 90 percent of the union’s writers across country voted to support the deal, which infuses $321 million into the labor group’s ailing health plan.

By Katie Kilkenny April 24, 2026 2:31pm

Members of the Writers Guild of America gave the green light on Friday to a four-year deal with studios and streamers that will stem the bleeding of the union’s ailing health plan.

The atypically long pact, which injects $321 million into the plan, was supported by slightly more than 90 percent of members and rejected by 9.6 percent in a ratification vote.

“In the face of industry contraction and runaway healthcare cost inflation, writers were able to secure a contract that returns our Health Fund to a sustainable path and builds on gains from the 2023 strike,” WGA West president Michele Mulroney said in a statement as she thanked everyone involved in the process.

The results arrived after union negotiators sought to convince members that trading a shorter deal for the largest-ever boost to annual health funding in the union’s history was a worthy bargain. “Agreeing to a four-year deal this time allowed us to get more and new funding for the health plan than we’ve actually ever gotten before,” the co-chair of the WGA’s negotiating committee, Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published earlier in the week.


The Writers Guild of America West headquarters. Mario Tama/Getty Images

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