With zero-hours contracts, low pay and verbal abuse, the picture for museum and gallery workers in the UK is bleak. And privatisation is only making it worse, says Tracy Edwards.
Zero hours, short term contracts, low pay, physical and verbal abuse, and muscular problems from standing for too long. Add in privatisation, job cuts and imposed changes to working conditions, and the picture is bleak for museum and gallery workers in the UK.
Cuts to arts funding by the previous Tory-led government and now this one have been the main driver of our sector becoming one of the lowest paid in the country. Despite the obvious attraction of working at some of the finest art and cultural institutions in the world, many young people are being priced out by the poverty pay on offer... Keep reading on The Guardian
Zero hours, short term contracts, low pay, physical and verbal abuse, and muscular problems from standing for too long. Add in privatisation, job cuts and imposed changes to working conditions, and the picture is bleak for museum and gallery workers in the UK.
Cuts to arts funding by the previous Tory-led government and now this one have been the main driver of our sector becoming one of the lowest paid in the country. Despite the obvious attraction of working at some of the finest art and cultural institutions in the world, many young people are being priced out by the poverty pay on offer... Keep reading on The Guardian