630 Recreational Workers
All workers in playgrounds and places of amusement and recreation. All professional entertainers.
We welcome workers in the full range of recreation and entertainment industries, including musicians, cinema workers, ticketing workers, actors, theme park workers, scriptwriters, sound and lighting workers, and all other workers such as cleaners and engineers who work in the entertainment and recreation industries.
While profits for bosses and entertainment companies are soaring, workers' interests are repeatedly ignored. In an industry that has an annual turnover of billions of pounds, there are few legitimate reasons why workers like you cannot have better pay, working conditions and more respect and power on the job. It all boils down to the fact that bosses will always pay less if they can get away with it. That is, unfortunately, how capitalism works, and the recreation and entertainment industries are rife with this unabashed profiteering.
Bosses continually try to divide up the workforce, with the interests of highly skilled workers like musicians being pitted against the interests of other workers like ushers or cleaners. But the IWW knows that all their interests are the same, and the only way for one group to get a better deal is to unite with all other workers in their workplace or industry.
In a thriving sector like recreation and entertainment, it is simply not acceptable for workers to live on peanuts while bosses get all the profit and fame. As the writers' strike in the USA recently proved, when workers in this sector organise and fight together, there can be a better future.
The IWW is organising in these industries and encourages all recreation and entertainment workers to get on board. Join up here.
