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• August 6, 2014

  Lights, Camera, Direct Action

  A growing wave of direct action is bringing change to the low wage culture of London’s cinemas. One fifth of workers’ pay in Britain is beneath the living wage (or ‘poverty threshold wage’) of £7.65 an hour. The employees at London’s independent cinemas are amongst those experiencing exploitation, but a growing wave of direct action…
• November 30, 2013

  Fair Pay in London’s Indies

  Walking through Soho last week, you may have noticed a unique double billing advertised at a Curzon cinema. There, spelled out in those iconic backlit letters above the entrance, were the words ‘Give Us Fair Pay’ and ‘Recognise the Union’. What better way for fed-up and exploited cinema workers to express themselves? (Read on at…
• October 31, 2012

  Reflections on Chicago 2012

  This post originally appeared on the Learning Lounge – the online community for the Future Leaders programme, the leadership development programme for school leaders committed to eradicating educational disadvantage. Along with participants on the programme – Future Leaders – I visited Chicago in October 2012 to experience school culture in this challenging urban environment. Thursday 25th October.…