Hello from CNN, I'm Krista Bow with the five things you need to know for Monday, September 25th.

Hollywood Studios and the Writers Guild of America have reached a tentative agreement that could potentially end the month's long strike.

This comes after what the guild called marathon negotiating sessions,

but the terms of the deal haven't been made official yet.

The agreement will still need to be ratified by all the union members, with the WGA saying the deal is, quote, exceptional and includes meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership. But this tentative deal doesn't end the strike quite yet,

although the guild says it has now suspended picketing.

The strike has had a huge financial impact.

With economists saying that combined with the Hollywood Actors strike,

there's been a nationwide hit of more than $5 billion.

In other strike news, members of the Canadian Auto Workers Union Unifor

have ratified a tentative three-year agreement with

board on Sunday. It comes after the union reached an 11th hour agreement with the

manufacturer to avoid a strike last week. The terms of this deal could have an impact on the United

Auto Workers Union negotiations happening in the US against Ford, General

Motors, and Stilantis. For example, the Canadian Union won some key demands that

Ford and other automakers haven't agreed to yet with the UAW, like a return of a pension plan for members.

CNN's Vanessa Yerkovich has more on where the UAW negotiations stand.

We know that Ford has put a new proposal on the table

that the UAW likes or likes better

than the previous proposals because they're not

targeting them in these new rounds of strikes.

We don't know what they have offered on wages,

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