An End to the Writer's Strike?

According to latimes.com the DGA (Director's Guild of America) has reached a deal with the producers that gives them more than the deal offered to the writers during the settlement talks. However, now that the DGA has signed, it puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the writer's to sign as well. The writer's now have a precedent for what people in the industry find to be fair, and they won't likely get more than that.
Now the writers need to make a decision, do they continue to hold onto their hard line and demand to get exactly what they ask, or do they negotiate the same deal as the directors have. I believe in the coming weeks the writer's will do the latter and the strike will be over. I believe this because they don't have much bargaining power any more and because it's the smart thing to do. The producers want this to end and will likely agree to the same deal as the directors at this point. But, if given time to contemplate the contracts the producers may decide the directors deserve more and will use that as a platform to go lower than. This would not bode well for the writers as once this happens I do not believe there is any turning back. The second reason to settle is because many writers will feel like they now should, and if the union continues to fight and keep people out of work, the union will fall apart. This is most likely exactly what the producers would like to happen, and it will if they hold out now.
I was hoping for the writers to get what they were asking for, but they have lost their bargaining chip; they can hope that the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) will strike in the summer and maybe that will help them again or they can do the more realistic thing and negotiate the same deal as the DGA. This way the writer's contracts improve and the strike ends, hopefully before too many more writers lose their contracts where they were employed.