Strike at Film Studio Ends in Baja California
The union that declared a strike at the Baja California movie lot where “Titanic” was filmed has abandoned the work stoppage, but will fight to continue representing maintenance workers, officials said Thursday.
Life was returning to normal at 20th Century Fox studios, which was shuttered with some employees inside from June 9, when the strike was declared, until Monday.
“It’s finished,” studio spokesman Hugo Baylon said Thursday. “They’re gone.”
Only four of the 15 employees at the Rosarito, Mexico, studio represented by the Technical and Manual Workers Union walked out. The others continued to work, spending nights in actors’ dressing rooms. Directors and producers were flown by helicopter into the seaside compound for meetings. No filming was underway.
A Mexican federal labor panel declared the strike illegal. The union suffered another setback when workers voted 11 to 4 Wednesday to join a rival union.
Victoria Ramirez, a spokeswoman for the striking union, said the vote was conducted unfairly and would be appealed. The four strikers returned with union staffers to the headquarters in Mexico City, she said.
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