TB: It`s Bye-Bye to Strike.

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Posted: 16 years ago

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Finally the 10 day long TV strike has been called off. And fresh episodes will be aired from the coming week...

It's time for all TV lagoons to celebrate as the on-going cold war between the Producers and the workers has finally ended. A grueling 6-hour long meeting finally saw both the parties(Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) and the Producers' Body) come to a settlement over the differences in the workers' wages. With the culmination of the 10 day long break, shooting for all Hindi GECs will commence from tonight.

Rajesh Chaddha, one of the sub committee members under the Producers' body says, "We have come to a settlement with the workers and all major parties are satisfied with the settlement. Fresh episodes will be telecast from Monday".

It is learnt that the wages for the workers from now will be monthly deals, with the spot boys getting 13,500, light boys 15,000, electricians 17,000, carpenters 15,000, Assistant carpenter 13,000, Sound + Boom 60,000, Make-up artistes altogether 80,000 per month. In addition to this, the workers will be getting day-to-day conveyance. The work timings will be from 9am to 10pm, and if it goes beyond, they will be paid on pro-rata basis.

So viewers gear up for more twists and turns in the up-coming fresh episodes of your favorite shows…

Reporter: Srividya Rajesh
Author: Rachana Trivedi

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Strike Called Off

After 10 days the producers' strike has finally been called off. And all telly fans can heave a sigh of relief as the production houses will resume filming tonight itself so that fresh episodes can be aired from Monday onwards. We spoke to the vice president of the producer's association Dheeraj Kumar who heads Creative Eye a production house.

"For us the first good news is that the strike has been called off with appropriate decision. There were two worker unions involved in this issue. And now everyone have agreed over two things - job security meaning they will get insurance facilities as well as the fact that they will be under a one month contract which was not the case initially. Earlier they used to loose their jobs in 4-5 days without any notice or anything. However this will not happen after they will sign the contract," informs Dheeraj.

"Second thing is the hike issue. Now we have spoken to them about the current economical situation and they have agreed on a small rise in the percentage of hikes which will be 10 to 15 %," adds Kumar.

"The next issue was that the producers wanted a hike in their contract price from channels as well. So now an agreement has been brought about where they will first reduce their production cost ? like if one episode was taking 3 days to shoot now the production house will try to finish that episode in one and half day so that is how they themselves will not face any burden and they will not ask for more money to broadcasters also."

The shooting for all the shows will start from tomorrow (Thursday November 20, 2008) and the channels will air new episodes from Monday (November 24, 2008).

Link http://www.indya.com/news/newsDetails.aspx?xfile=2008/November/News_20081119_100