The Film Employees Federation of South India (FEFSI) on Thursday said its members and their family members would sit on a hunger protest in Chennai soon, demanding fair wages from the Tamil Film Producers Council.

A decision in this regard was taken after a meeting of FEFSI office bearers in Chennai. 'Since the producers are not ready to fix fair wages to workers, we have no other option than to go on a fast protest,' office bearers of FEFSI said.

FEFSI has reiterated its stand over the hike for film employees, and asked for government intervention to resolve the issue. 'We will protest till the producers take back their wrong remarks about FEFSI and enter into an agreement with us,' according to the federation.

Last week, FEFSI had announced new remuneration for its employees, which peeved producers as they claimed they were not consulted. In turn, the Producers Council announced that they would henceforth not have agreements with FEFSI, the umbrella organisation of film crew.