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Bollywood Strike Ends
The Bollywood dispute was finally resolved when the producers agreed to pay employees within 15 days of work being completed, to limit working hours to a maximum of 12 hours a day and to use union labour only.
Confirming that workers would return to the studios on Saturday 4th October, Dinesh Chaturvedi, the general secretary of the Federation of Western Cine Employees, told wire service APF, ‘The workers have faith in the producers. Now it’s up to the producers to have faith in the workers.’
The Federation claimed that the Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association had reneged on a memorandum of understanding signed by both parties in January 2008, and that some of its members were owed months of back-pay, and were fired if they complained about working up to 20 hours a day and replaced by non-union labour.
Sushma Shiromanee, the Vice President of the Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association, told the BBC, ‘The strike is over. We have agreed to the same demands as on the earlier memorandum of understanding.’ [ADD]
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