BWTUC PROTEST ON SATURDAY 29TH JULY IN CLAPHAM IN SUPPORT OF CINEMA WORKERS IN DISPUTE FOR LIVING WAGE AND WORKERS RIGHTS

Workers are fighting not only for the Living Wage, but for company sickening pay, maternity pay and holidays above the statutory minimum, and for union recognition for BECTU at the other 5 sites says BWTUC 
        
Union members from affiliated branches of Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Union Council(BWTUC) are staging a protest  outside Clapham Picturehouse from 5pm to 7.30pm on Saturday 29th July in support of cinema workers in a pay dispute.

The protest is to coincide with a day of action in support of the strike by Picturehouse workers for a Living Wage, decent sick pay, union recognition, among other demands. These workers are members of BECTU. See notes to editors for copy of previous BECTU press release on the dispute. 

The details of protest are as follows:

From 5pm to 7.30pm 
Saturday 29th July,
Outside Clapham Picturehouse 
76 Venn Street, SW4 0AT
 London.

Spencer Barnshaw, BWTUC Secretary, said " This dispute by low paid cinema workers started in Brixton.Their campaign has now grown to 6 cinemas and become the biggest cinema strikes in British history. 

They are now fighting not only for the Living Wage, but for company sick pay, maternity pay and holidays above the statutory minimum, and for union recognition for BECTU at the other 5 sites.

Picturehouse, owned by Cineworld, has now sacked four union reps at The Ritzy on trumped-up charges, it's vital that Trade Unionists step up to support this campaign.

This Saturday from 5pm-7:30pm we'll be organising a community picket outside Clapham Picturehouse, and if we have enough numbers Wandsworth Cineworld, talking to customers and asking them to back the boycott of the company called by BECTU.

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Notes to editors 
Copy of previous BECTU press release on the dispute

Union members at six Picturehouse venues are involved in a long campaign for the Living Wage.
3 July 2017
BECTU members at five London sites will strike again this Friday 7 July as their battle to secure the Living Wage intensifies.
Union members at the Ritzy in Brixton and at the Hackney Picturehouse, Picturehouse Central and East Dulwich Picturehouse will down tools from 3pm in a strike which will run until 5am on Saturday 8 July.
Members on strike will travel to the Crouch End Picturehouse where members there will be on strike from 5pm for 12 hours. The picket line at the Crouch End venue will run alongside a demonstration with guest speakers. 
Tribunal hearing
This Friday's strike comes ahead of the interim relief hearing in the Employment Tribunals in Croydon on Monday 10 July which will consider the circumstances of the dismissal of three BECTU representatives at the Ritzy cinema on 14 June.
Several Labour Party MPs expressed their support for the dismissed workers in a letter to the Guardian which urged Picturehouse management to talk to BECTU representatives to resolve the long-running dispute.