Welsh National Opera choristers begin balloting for strike action

THE Welsh National Opera’s (WNO) choristers began balloting today for strike action over proposals to cut jobs and pay by at least 15 per cent.
Equity union said plans to reduce the already under-resourced chorus will bring the “real threat of compulsory redundancies.”
Acknowledging funding cuts from both the Arts Council and Arts Council of Wales, the union said: “We will not accept compulsory redundancies or the desire of WNO management to make contracts ‘flexible’ solely to their own advantage, while adding the precarity of an unsustainable cut to chorus members’ basic earnings.”
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