Unite presents VUE with ‘World's Worst Cinema’ award in run-up to Oscars
  
VUE cinema workers resume strike action today (Tuesday 17 February) in a long-running dispute over better jobs, pay and conditions at the St Enoch’s centre in Glasgow.
Dozens of Unite hospitality members have been taking strike action since December as part of a campaign to secure the real living wage for workers aged 18 and over, union recognition, and safe subsidised transport home for workers at the end of late night shifts.
Unite which represents the vast majority of the customer assistant and team leaders at the VUE St Enoch’s site will present management with a ‘World's Worst Cinema’ award over the unfair and unequal way its workers are being treated as they resume strike action.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “VUE’s management is trying to force a poor and unfair working environment upon its workers which Unite will not tolerate.
"The workers have Unite’s full support as they begin the latest stage in their campaign for better jobs, pay and conditions.”
VUE Entertainment Limited made a profit amounting to £25.3m in 2024, up from £10.5m in 2023.
Yusuf Kidwai, Unite representative for VUE cinema workers said: "The VUE workers are returning once again to the picket line to continue to demand our real living wage and paid and safe transport home. Workers have called VUE’s bluff, it claimed that all our members' workplace discontent could be solved through its open door policy.
"Not only has it summarily fail to address any of our issues, but workers are being forced to operate in an environment, where attempts to talk about the union are quashed under its bullying and harassment policy, and where treatment for temporary and unionised staff is entirely different.
"Unite members are working in a murky culture of fear and intimidation. VUE has proven that it cannot be trusted to behave like a responsible employer.”
Unite can also confirm that its membership at Village Hotels in Govan will continue their strike action after a fresh powerful mandate from the workers.
Dozens of Village Hotel workers gave Unite a new mandate for industrial action with 96.5 per cent emphatically supporting strike action. Industrial action has been ongoing since late November in a similar dispute over jobs, pay and conditions.
 
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Unite Scotland is the country’s biggest and most diverse trade union with around 150,000 members.