On February 26, 2008, the members of the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW), the labour unions that represent film, television and radio writers working in the United States voted to bring an anticlimactic finale to a hard fought 100-day strike. In voting to end the strike, members voiced their support for a new three year basic agreement between themselves and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). The AMPTP is the trade organization that represents the interests of 397 American film and television producers.

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) renegotiates its Minimum Basic Agreement (MBA) with the AMPTP every three years. In late 2007, negotiations over the MBA reached an impasse, as a result the WGA membership voted to give its board the authorization to call a strike, which it did on Friday, November 2, 2007; the strike began the following Monday, November 5, 2007.
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