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Industry in crisis: Film and television workers threaten to stop productions for broadcasters
Act, representing industry workers, has eagerly announced, Yes, Rainbow, Network and the Broadcasting Corporation that no longer long filming days will be approved and that productions will be stopped.
Meaning: Losses of millions.
Act CEO to Walla! Brenze: "No justification for working in those hours of sweat workers in China"
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David Wertheim
Monday, 22 November 2021, 21:54 Updated: 22:01
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The length of the working day is a burning issue in the global film industry - photographers, assistant directors, screenwriters, ashtrays, dressers, etc.
For about a decade he has been managing an act - the Association of Film and Television Workers, a dialogue with the Association of Film and Television Producers in order to shorten the working day customary in the industry, without success. The length of the working day is a burning issue in the global film industry - photographers, assistants and assistant directors, screenwriters, ashtrays, dressers, etc.
Employees of the film and television industry work multiple hours a day in violation of the Working Hours and Rest Act. A routine workday stands at 13-14 hours a day and in many cases also 16 hours. The extreme working hours, which used to occur only occasionally due to unforeseen constraints, have in recent years become a routine planned by the productions, with the aim of cutting budgets as much as possible. Thus, for example, one of the largest and most active production companies in the country will start filming a production at the end of the month, with an exceptional 70 hours planned in advance, which means an average of 15 hours a day for a month and a half.
In light of the exacerbation of the problem in recent years to a breaking point, and in light of the producers' conduct, Act acted earlier this month to Deputy Economy Minister Yair Golan, and updated him on the difficult situation in the industry.
Golan immediately activated the enforcement administration in the labor arm under his authority.
However, the broadcasters have not yet reached agreements with the union and the multi-hour work routine has continued.
Behind the evasion, they say in the act, obeying the law are of course the profits that flow into the pockets of the owners of the broadcasters.
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(Photo: Screenshot, Rainbow 12)
"Workers are not involved in saving lives"
"The workers are not engaged in saving lives or the security of the state and there is no reason to employ them during such extreme hours. The employment of the workers for so many hours stems from purely financial and profit considerations of the production companies and the broadcasters."
About two weeks ago, the director of the Labor Administration's Regulation and Enforcement Administration, Meir David, issued a warning letter to the Producers' Association, to the broadcasters - Reshet, Keshet, Hot, Yes and the Public Broadcasting Corporation (here), as well as to the film funds and the Ministry of Culture. Because in all productions, no employee will be employed in any position beyond 12 hours on a working day, and he warned that enforcement would be carried out on the issue. Act further announced that it would not hesitate to stop productions.
Recall that according to the published public reports (and some have not been published at all in recent years), some broadcasters consistently deduct tens of millions of shekels a year from their minimum obligation to invest in local productions. However, it should be noted that despite this, some broadcasters are still at a loss.
Sources in the union say that "the workers are not engaged in saving lives or national security and there is no reason to employ them during such extreme hours. The employment of the workers for so many hours stems from purely financial and profit considerations of the production companies and broadcasters."
Act CEO Itamar Avitan told Walla! Brenze that: "Water has reached the soul.
Industrial workers are exhausted and worn out.
Do not see a home, get divorced en masse, do not see their children grow up, they simply have no life.
The work on television and in the cinema sounds glittering and glamorous, but behind the scenes it is a tough and exploitative industry of capitalists who oppress the weakened workers and pick up awards and complimenting articles in the press.
"There is no justification for working in those hours of sweat workers in China, and it is not clear to us why even though the producers have exactly the same interest as the workers - they choose to bully the workers and trample on their rights."
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