Article: Strike shakes up shoots, prods interim pay pacts;Advertisers hire security to protect non-union sets.(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)

Major advertisers are still resisting union demands for higher pay in the commercial actors strike. But as the highly charged dispute goes into its second week, they are paying a price -- in the form of payments for security personnel to protect non-union shoots.

Striking members of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television & Radio Artists protested last week at shoots for AIG Insurance in Brooklyn and Long Island, New York; Sears, Roebuck & Co. in Los Angeles; General Motors Corp. at the Burbank, Calif., airport; BellSouth Corp. in Northridge, Calif.; and AT&T Corp. in Petaluma, Calif. As a result, ad agencies are keeping location information ...

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