The cine workers want their salaries to be raised by fifty per cent on a daily basis. They are paid Rs one thousand on an average per call sheet on a daily basis.
They want it to be raised by another Rs 500. Instead of a call sheet of six to six that is twelve hours they are made to work for around fifteen to eighteen hours they complained.
Some of them are being paid seven hundred for nine hours. Last four years there is no wage revision for the cine workers. All the workers rushed to the Film federation office and they did not go for the shootings today.
The films are earning money on a Pan India basis, but paid at the local level they explained. The drivers also added that they were heavily exploited.
The producers are making good money and are not paying the workers properly they said. A decision in favour of the workers is expected by this evening.
Shootings of Ravi Teja, Dhanush, Sai Dharam Tej and Vijay Devarakonda have been stopped today due to strike. One of the employees poured petrol on himself and tried to torch himself.
The police pulled him out and removed his clothes before arresting him. The workers from twenty-four crafts are demanding a rise in fifty to seventy per cent of the daily wages.
