TV extras get pay lift in Argentina
Union members score salary increase
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Deal, which takes effect Jan. 1, also limits daily studio shifts to six and a half hours with catering and includes payment for transport and dress rehearsals, among other things.
It came after extras began a walkout Nov. 22 and a day later staged a noisy picket line in front of the studios of Telefe, a leading broadcaster.
Contract actors, meanwhile, continued to strike for a fifth day Friday to demand shorter workdays and higher pay, a dispute that has halted production and the airing of fiction series. A number of actors have expressed desire to end the conflict, suggesting that they will accept to work the nine-hour days producers say are needed to make daily and weekly series like the womanizer comedy "Lalola."
