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PRIVATISATION threatens the future of jobs in Britain’s creative industries, art students marching in solidarity with striking gallery workers warned yesterday.
On the march from the National Gallery to Whitehall, student union president at University of the Arts London Shelly Asquith told the Morning Star:
“I’m here because the National Gallery’s front-line staff are in the kind of jobs our students will be doing when they graduate.
“The privatisation here is a threat to my members’ future.”
Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn said: “The National Gallery was founded so that the people of this country could enjoy their heritage and paintings.
Our gallery is not there to be privatised for someone else.”
And Rob Lugg, a Bectu member who took part in the successful Ritzy cinema strike, told the cheering crowd: “There is a growing movement of people who are saying we’re not going to go on some one or two-day strike and go back with some crap deal. We’re going to fight and win.”
