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A man walks past posters advertising shows at the Edinburgh Fringe festival
WORKERS at Edinburgh’s world-famous festivals are “underpaid, poorly treated and work in precarious conditions,” a new report says.
The dossier, compiled by the Fair Fringe campaign, draws together examples of extreme working hours expectations, low pay and no pay, inhumane accommodation and deductions from wages.
Thousands of people descend on the Scottish capital every summer for the theatre, TV, film and books festivals, and their more famous stage and comedy “fringe.”
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
ANN HENDERSON on the exciting programme planned for this summer’s festival in the Scottish capital