Hollywood studios are already girding for potential strikes two years before the first contract even expires. Relations have become so frayed in the last two months with the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America, West, that studios recently began drafting strike contingency plans that could be finalized by early next year. The current studio deal with writers isn't up until November 2007; the actors' contract expires in June 2008.
See "Guilds' Actions Foster Strike Plans at Studios", Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times, November 13, 2005