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By Shilpa Jamkhandikar
MUMBAI, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Shooting of dozens of Indian television soap operas, hugely popular in South Asia, resumed on Thursday after a television industry workers' union called off a strike on an assurance of better pay and work conditions.
The strike ended after a compromise was reached late on Wednesday, welcome news for viewers subject to re-runs of popular soap operas, and broadcasters faced with plunging viewership and nervous advertisers.
"We have a lot of workers who work very hard and have an equal hand in the success of these serials and soaps," said Dharmesh Tiwari of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees, which represents workers.
"They deserve to be treated like professionals."
The soaps are not only tremendously popular in India but also across South Asia, in the Gulf and among expatriate Indian communities around the world.
Apart from a pay hike, TV producers have also put in place a new contract system to replace daily wages, with life insurance for the more than 500,000 workers who work in television, said Mukesh Bhatt, chairman of the producers' association.
Shoots in Mumbai, home to the Bollywood movie industry and the dominant Hindi-language general entertainment channels, had ground to a halt more than two weeks ago.
Nine general entertainment channels then stopped airing fresh content, resorting to reruns of serials.
the strike that had been going on forever was over since they raised the pay for cameraman, assistant cameraman and all those jobs. They called it official then this morning it came out the makeup artsist, stylist and other such workers are not happy and they don't agree. So the strike is on! I don't mind. Sheesh I need to study!
New episodes of your favourite soap on TV may be delayed further. A section of workers refused to return to work saying they had been kept in the dark about the agreement with the producers' body.
So shooting could not resume on Thursday. The unions of boom-men, hairdressers and dressmen said they would not end their strike until their demand for higher wages was met. "We have been kept out of the agreement and so we will keep ourselves out from work," said a union leader.
The producers' body, in turn, threatened to hire "people from outside to fill in the gaps" if the workers stayed away.
"We have not received any official letter but we were told that some of the unions have revolted saying that they don't agree with the terms of the MoU. We need to start shooting now. The producers will be forced to hire people from outside if some people don't join work," said Ratan Jain, president of AMPTPP (Association of Motion Pictures and Television Programme Producers of India).
Mukesh Bhatt, chairman of the producers' body, accused the workers of holding the industry to ransom.
"Their [the workers'] house is divided. They had signed the new document which had given them considerable benefit and today they are singing a different tune. This is very unfortunate and unprofessional. Out of the 22 workers segments in the FWICE, four had asked for better pay and we had resolved it yesterday. But now out of those four factions, two of them like the hairdressers, dress suppliers and the sound recordists have backtracked," Bhatt said.
The TV channels are in a dilemma. "We were officially told that the matter has been amicably resolved between the producers and the workers. We thought the MoU that has been signed will be respected by everybody. But it seems that it hasn't happened. We are waiting for details," said Tarun Mehra, business head of Zee TV and the spokesperson for the general entertainment channels.
"We are not too sure what our next step will be. We have to see how and why their talks failed. We are keeping a watch over the situation," said Albert Almeida, executive vice president of Sony Entertainment Television.
| Cine workers resume work for four days 21 Nov 2008, 2153 hrs IST, PTI | |||||||
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| MUMBAI: The Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) has managed to pacify the industry workers to resume work for four days till a In a meeting between the FWICE general council and representatives from the 22 associations under its umbrella, it was decided that the workers would resume work for four days by which they would try to reach to a consensus. FWICE had called for the strike, demanding higher wages, better work conditions and more breaks between shoots. The strike impacted television serials and forced channels to begin repeat telecasts from November 10. On November 9, seven major broadcasters threatened a blackout of fresh programming as a collective response to the inability to bear the increased costs due to higher wages being paid to TV workers and technicians that have been thrust upon producers. The channels asked FWICE and TV producers associations to resolve their differences, warning them of stopping commissioning any fresh episodes. Although a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the TV producers and workers on November 19, the strike was not officially called off. A new core committee will be formed comprising of producers and workers in order to reach to a consensus. |
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