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BFI strike enters fourth week

AJ | 04.02.2002 23:13

On Thursday morning, over 100 MSF staff at the British Film Institute walked out for the third week running in a dispute over pay.

BFI strike enters fourth week
BFI strike enters fourth week


BFI director Jon Teckman today met with unionists in what was reported to be an unconstructive meeting. Workers at the Film Council are paid over 50% more than BFI workers who perform similar tasks. The union is asking for a measly 4% increase, with better conditions. A temp who was not at work last Thursday morning was told his contract had been terminated, but this decision was later reversed. While refusing workers the final 1% pay increase, at least one new management post was created, reportedly waged at over £60,000 per year. Here's the link to last week's report http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21089&group=webcast

AJ
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Welcome to the class war

06.02.2002 00:23

Good for them! I support wholeheartedly any worker who attempts to take control of her/his own labour.

Of course, getting more money won’t solve many problems. It means you can buy better, newer illusions – more TV channels to tell you what to want; shoes with a more prestigious brand, promising to earn you respect among your peers; a better package holiday taking you to a monotonous prefabricated environment, identical to hundreds of others around the world, different only in that this one is very “now”. This one will bring you happiness.
The life-sucking tedium of work is worthwhile because you get to consume all of these wonderful things which promise the world.
When you buy them, however, the illusion evaporates. Those glasses are already so “last season”. Chuck out that Pashmina – it’s 2002! There is a new item to consume. This is the one that will bring you true happiness. The old one was a lie sold to you by mass marketing techniques – you were brainwashed into wanting it. But not this one.

And so on ad infinitum (until the Earth’s natural resources run out, of course).

We have to fight to improve people’s lives here and now but we should always keep in mind our final goal of a classless society, where we can truly live, and crush our natural desires no longer.

In reply to some comments on the old report ( http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21089&group=webcast): Not everyone’s going to agree with me – and I wouldn’t want them to – but shunning anyone who isn’t a “true revolutionary” is bollocks. None of us has all the answers. The answers will be revealed in the collective struggle.

red and black
- Homepage: http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21089&group=webcast


Clarification

26.02.2002 12:45

It has come out that *four* new managment places (@60k +) will be created.

AJ


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