The union governing Hollywood writers is of course the WGA (Writers Guild of America).
We can now confirm: there will be no WGA strike in 2017.
While the brokered deal now technically heads to the governing bodies of both the WGA West and WGA East for approval – and then onto the WGA members themselves to be ratified – those steps are basically a formality at this point, with the WGA already releasing a statement outlining the gains they made via the new contract.
If a project is made by a Hollywood studio, the crew of that project is no doubt made up just about entirely of unionized professionals, and that most definitely includes the writers who write everyone’s favorite scripted TV series and movies.