How does the BECTU help film makers?

Website: http://www.bectu.org.uk/home

BECTU - the Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union - offers a wide range of services to its more than 26,500 members, including:
Negotiating pay, conditions and contracts with employers
Personal advice and representation for individual members
Advice and representation on health and safety
Benefits and services for BECTU members
A union journal, Stage Screen and Radio published eight times a year.
A website designed to improve access to the union's advice and support.
Membership is voluntary, and anyone working or seeking employment in the sectors covered by BECTU can join BECTU online.
The union is financed entirely by individual subscriptions from members.
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The key aims of the union are to:

• Protect jobs
• Increase membership
• Win new recognition agreements
• Improve pay and conditions of service, including pensions

BECTU's offices are in:

• London

373-377 Clapham Rd,

London,
SW9 9BT
Tel: 020 7346 0900

• Glasgow

150 Brand Street,
Glasgow,
G51 1DH
Tel: 0141 314 0060

• Manchester

Room 112 Holyoake House,
Hanover Street,

Manchester
M60 0AS
Tel: 0161 832 7686

• Birmingham

5th Floor, Scala House,

Holloway Circus Queensway,

Birmingham,
B1 1EQ
Tel: 0121 632 53

• Cardiff.

Rooms 217-218
Transport House
Cathedral Road
Cardiff
CF11 9SD
Tel: 02920 666557

The BECTU helps filmmakers by;

• Improving their pay conditions

http://www.bectu.org.uk/news/bbc/nb0320.html: This link shows a news report of one example on the BECTU's work in improving pay.

• Protect Jobs

http://www.bectu.org.uk/news/260: This link shows a news reprort on how the BECTU is helping to try and protect some jobs.