Cinema staff strike outside the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton, London
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THE DIRECTOR of the Sundance film festival spoke today of the importance of striking cinema workers being heard when they picket the opening night of the London event.
Picturehouse employees are staging two 24-hour strikes during London’s Sundance film festival over the company’s refusal to pay staff the living wage and recognise cinema workers’ union Bectu.
Workers are also fighting for proper sick pay, maternity and paternity pay and decent conditions in the workplace.
The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
JOHN LANG recalls how Murdoch used scabbing electricians and even devised a fake newspaper to force a confrontation with printers – then sacked them all
