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A BRITISH trade union has signed a joint statement with European counterparts to demand support for the future of culture and cultural public services.
With CGT Culture from France and FP CGIL MiBACT of Italy the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) denounces “the disastrous political choices of the past decades across Europe that favoured the privatisation and commercialisation of cultural services,” which left them acutely vulnerable to the damage done by the pandemic.
The PCS union represents 4,000 museum and heritage workers in Britain, including at the Tate and the Southbank Centre which have seen hundreds of workers lose their jobs in the past couple of months.
PCS Culture Group president Clara Paillard said: “Thousands of cultural workers have already lost their jobs and venues have closed across the UK and this is brewing in other countries across Europe.
“Not only do we need additional financial support from governments for the sector but it is a different model that we must develop.
“End the art for profit, let’s act on the principle of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and ensure culture is for the many, not for the few.”
