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A man walks past posters advertising shows at the Edinburgh Fringe festival
WORKERS at Edinburgh’s world-famous festivals are “underpaid, poorly treated and work in precarious conditions,” a new report says.
The dossier, compiled by the Fair Fringe campaign, draws together examples of extreme working hours expectations, low pay and no pay, inhumane accommodation and deductions from wages.
Thousands of people descend on the Scottish capital every summer for the theatre, TV, film and books festivals, and their more famous stage and comedy “fringe.”
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
ANN HENDERSON on the exciting programme planned for this summer’s festival in the Scottish capital
TONY BURKE says an International Labour Conference next month will try for a new convention to protect often super-exploited workers providing services such as ride-hailing (taxis) such as Uber as well as fast food and package delivery