After securing the confidence of their boards of directors, the Writers Guild of America East and West on Wednesday revealed the details of the new tentative agreement with the studios and streamers, including the plan to reestablish the solvency of the union health plan.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has agreed to pay a record $321M into the WGA health plan. In exchange, as we exclusively reported in December, the writers will tack another year onto the contract. If ratified later this month, the 2026 minimum basic agreement will span four years — a concession that is sure to ruffle feathers with the other above-the-line unions.
As part of that cash infusion, the WGA managed increases in the employer contribution caps, which had been stagnant.
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