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Cinema staff to hold May Day strikes

CINEMA workers will be striking on May Day — also known as International Workers’ Day — and will be joining a huge rally in London.

Employees of Hackney, Crouch End, East Dulwich and Central Picturehouse branches will be taking a day of action on Monday over owner Cineworld’s refusal to pay the London Living Wage or recognise Bectu as their union.

Organisers will be speaking alongside shadow chancellor John McDonnell at a rally in Trafalgar Square starting at 2.30pm.

Civil Service union PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka will also be making a speech about the upcoming election, the need to stamp out austerity, and to lift the 1 per cent public sector-pay cap.

At around 4pm, the cinema workers will be marching to Picturehouse Central in Piccadilly Circus for a protest.

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