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In the UK, West End backstage workers have voted to reject the 10 per cent pay increase offer from the Society of London Theatre. The offer had received criticism from union BECTU for having "strings attached", Broadway World reports.
In May, the union requested an 11 per cent rise across all existing pay grades in the SOLT/BECTU agreement for front-of-house and backstage staff working in theatres in London’s West End.
SOLT reportedly came back with a 10 per cent pay offer in June. However, BECTU urged members to reject it, arguing that the proposal came with conditions and it would "effectively gag BECTU" because there would be no further review of the majority of the agreement.
The union announced that 98.6 per cent of members had voted to reject the offer, according to reporting from The Stage.
It said it had advised SOLT of the result and was meeting with the membership body for West End theatre to discuss whether a new offer could be reached.
Source: Broadway World
(Link and quotes via original reporting)
In the UK, West End backstage workers have voted to reject the 10 per cent pay increase offer from the Society of London Theatre. The offer had received criticism from union BECTU for having "strings attached", Broadway World reports.
In May, the union requested an 11 per cent rise across all existing pay grades in the SOLT/BECTU agreement for front-of-house and backstage staff working in theatres in London’s West End.
SOLT reportedly came back with a 10 per cent pay offer in June. However, BECTU urged members to reject it, arguing that the proposal came with conditions and it would "effectively gag BECTU" because there would be no further review of the majority of the agreement.
The union announced that 98.6 per cent of members had voted to reject the offer, according to reporting from The Stage.
It said it had advised SOLT of the result and was meeting with the membership body for West End theatre to discuss whether a new offer could be reached.
Source: Broadway World
(Link and quotes via original reporting)
