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RITZY Cinema workers found themselves threatened with the sack at the weekend after months of negotiations and a hard fought-for agreement for higher wages was finally agreed upon.
Entertainment union Bectu representatives at the south London cinema were left in shock when Ritzy owner Picturehouse Cinemas announced the redundancies as part of new policy of “improvement in the consistency of customer service.”
“We are utterly dismayed and saddened by the brutality which was thrown at us yesterday by Picturehouse Cinemas,” read a statement by the Ritzy Living Wage campaign.
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
