Picturehouse workers on a Bectu picket line striking for the living wage
FEMALE trade union official Paula Lamont was hounded off a Bectu Picturehouse picket line by a mob on International Women’s Day, the Star can reveal.
Lamont, who is an elected member of Bectu sector executive committee (SEC), said that, while she is normally a confident person, the “completely one-sided and unprovoked” incident had left her “really shaken.”
In footage captured at the Piccadilly Picturehouse Central picket on March 8 and seen by the Star, Lamont is surrounded by protesters, who had joined the picket and are believed to be entirely unconnected with Prospect/Bectu, and was shouted and sworn at.
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