Covid Survey

Tell us if you feel more or less safe at work than you did in Febuary?

To all Bectu members working in Film & TV production:

In January, Bectu surveyed workers in film & TV on Covid safety measures. To monitor progress, we’re doing it again – please complete this survey and forward it to as many of your colleagues as you can? https://forms.gle/AhmQCU9kjnY7c5xi8

In some cases, in January, we were told that employers and colleagues were doing really well and taking the issue very seriously. But in other cases, results were a bit more mixed with some members reporting….

• ineffective Covid supervision and application of rules – often overseen by supervisors with insufficient authority

• poor management attitudes with lots of poor working practices being ignored

• poor attitudes among colleagues with a lack of mutual support for each other from people who have safety concerns

• insufficiently stringent testing

• poor management of cases where workers did test positive, or where workers reported illnesses

• unfair management attitudes to payment and job-security when productions are disrupted by coronavirus.

We shared your concerns with the employers organisation, Pact, and they agreed that improvements were needed in cases like this. Unsafe working not only threatens lives and health – it also puts everyone’s jobs at risk.

The union issued a joint statement with Pact on the 4th February and we promised to do the same survey again – this time.

Please complete the survey and forward it to as many of your colleagues as possible? The link is here: https://forms.gle/AhmQCU9kjnY7c5xi8

Thank you

Paul Evans

Assistant National Secretary | London Production Division 

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