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Spring 2021
Members of specific departments are working on a campaign to get Prep & Wrap in the TV Drama Agreement to be treated in the same way that it is in the Major Motion Picture Agreement.
Those Departments include:
Assistant Directors,
Costume & Wardrobe,
Hair, Makeup & Prosthetics
Locations Department
Production
The aims are to treat P&W in very specific ways:
limited to only 30 mins prep and 30 mins wrap
limited to only named departments
not ‘aggregated’ (so not managed in a way that allows productions to treat it as a lump of Prep & Wrap time that can be used in any way that suits them).
The Lighting Technicians Branch and BECTU HQ want to make it very clear that this campaign does not allow Productions to add unpaid Prep & Wrap on to contracts with members of the Lighting Department
Our position, which PACT is well aware of, is that historically, Lighting Technicians have not signed contracts with any P&W added, either Paid or Unpaid. More on the Branch stance can be found on our Prep & Wrap Page
In an email to the Chairs and Secretaries across the Production Division of BECTU, the Assistant National Secretary, London Production Division, highlights the intentions of the campaign and offered the following advice and request for support:
Dear All...
We would like to make it clear to every other branch that…
the 30/30 campaign is ONLY about those departments (though any other department that specifically wants to campaign for 30/30 can join it – just let us know!)
other departments will also have their own, clear, position in which they (generally) urge members to agree to no “Prep & Wrap included in the daily rate”
Please be clear to your members that this campaign is about limiting Prep & Wrap for the departments campaigning to limit it.
We are attaching a leaflet that explains the campaign here. (also available at the bottom of this page)
How your branch can support this campaign
Please be really clear to members about your own branch position on Prep & Wrap – we don’t want members to make the mistake of thinking we’re campaigning for 30/30 for everyone!
Please ask your branch to send a letter of support to the four branches campaigning for 30/30
We are producing badges for members to wear at work to show their support for the 30/30 campaign. When they’re ready, please get them and circulate them to your members if you can.
Encouragement helps! Urge your branch members to talk to colleagues in the four departments on set about their support for the campaign.
Read about the nature of prep and wrap and the work Bectu is doing to change it.
Bectu Website
30/30 Campaign Flyer
Bectu_Prep_and_Wrap_A4_poster.pdfGoogle Sites
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