Exclusive: UK union Bectu says membership has “skyrocketed” in recent months due to overtime conditions.
Union Bectu says membership has “skyrocketed” among the UK’s film visual-effects community as a result of its recent campaign highlighting unpaid overtime.
The UK’s largest entertainment union reports that hundreds of artists have joined in the last two months, making the VFX sector its fastest growing membership chapter.
“This is a sign of the strength of feeling,” Paul Evans, Bectu national officer, told Screen in an interview for an upcoming feature on the UK’s VFX sector. “Our members don’t believe that their management are managing them well.”
Bectu claims that on average UK VFX workers do 1.5 hours of unpaid overtime per day.
“Normally it is hard to get people to join a union because VFX is such a dispersed workforce but overtime is a massive issue,” he said. “They believe overtime could be managed properly. The magic bullet...
Union Bectu says membership has “skyrocketed” among the UK’s film visual-effects community as a result of its recent campaign highlighting unpaid overtime.
The UK’s largest entertainment union reports that hundreds of artists have joined in the last two months, making the VFX sector its fastest growing membership chapter.
“This is a sign of the strength of feeling,” Paul Evans, Bectu national officer, told Screen in an interview for an upcoming feature on the UK’s VFX sector. “Our members don’t believe that their management are managing them well.”
Bectu claims that on average UK VFX workers do 1.5 hours of unpaid overtime per day.
“Normally it is hard to get people to join a union because VFX is such a dispersed workforce but overtime is a massive issue,” he said. “They believe overtime could be managed properly. The magic bullet...
- 12/22/2015
- ScreenDaily
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