Curzon boycott

Staff at Curzon Cinemas fighting for union recognition and a Living Wage have been buoyed by support from a film producer who has decided to boycott the cinema chain.

Stanley Schtinter is co-producing a season of films and was scheduled to screen one of them at a Curzon cinema. However, he pulled out saying that “to proceed with this event would be to tacitly endorse the current policies of Curzon”.

Curzon has refused to recognise media union BECTU voluntarily, despite a majority of staff having signed a petition asking for it to be recognised. Within a week of the union announcing it would go down the statutory recognition route in August, the company announced a pay rise to £7 an hour. But BECTU says Curzon has how hired lawyers “to nit-pick through the [recognition] application”.

www.bectu.org.uk/news/2055