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CINEMA workers and activists swooped on a Cineworld shareholders’ meeting yesterday to demand a decent wage for all staff.
Employees at Cineworld-owned south London arthouse Ritzy Cinema who are currently paid £7.24 an hour, well below the living wage of £8.80, demonstrated outside the parent firm’s AGM.
The workers are members of entertainment workers’ union Bectu.
Its general secretary Gerry Morrissey said: “This is a growing cinema chain with a great future and the management should be thinking about investing in their staff, not holding them down to poverty wages.”
Cineworld is the second largest movie theatre company in Britain and bought the Ritzy’s managing company Picturehouse back in 2012.
The A Living Wage for the Ritzy Staff petition has reached over 1,500 signatures and counts acclaimed director Ken Loach among its supporters.
