The event that took place on 28-29 January brought together union leaders from across Europe to discuss strategies for ensuring fair and sustainable working conditions amid rapid technological change and structural transformations post-Covid. The participants were presented with key findings from the draft report, including highlights of the transformation that unions need to address.<\/p>\r\n
The uneven post-pandemic economic recovery means high instability in employment for freelancers and gig workers, while the rise of streaming productions and global players has led to challenges in working conditions, including long working hours, poor work-life balance, and job burnout.<\/p>\r\n
Furthermore, the sectors are characterised by significant gender disparities in employment and remuneration. A significant number of women and caregivers in the film and TV industry do not see themselves remaining in the sector in the next five years.<\/p>\r\n
The impact of digitalisation and the rise of generative AI cast doubts over the sustainability of certain jobs and demand investment by companies in their technological capacities and in the skills development of their workforce.<\/p>\r\n
Finally, the draft report also underlines the growing gap between company profitability and stagnant wages, underscoring that the economic recovery of the sector contrast with high precarity and unfair pay for workers.<\/p>\r\n
Actions: how can unions make transformation socially just?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n The seminar produced some avenues for joint action and union to union cooperation through:<\/p>\r\n The participants agreed on the importance of addressing these key challenges. The interaction between regulatory advocacy and cooperation on collective bargaining strategies are essential to achieve social justice for workers behind the scenes.<\/p>\r\n William Maunier, President of UNI Europa media, entertainment and \u00a0arts sector said: \u201cMedia and entertainment unions need to increase their cooperation to better engage multinational companies as well as local employers in order to increase collective bargaining coverage. It is through this that \u00a0we can \u00a0\u00a0ensure fair conditions and pay, eliminate gender inequalities and invest in skills development.<\/em>\u201d \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n What\u2019s next: a campaign for social standards in public funding for the cultural and creative sectors\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n The seminar concluded with a discussion on advancing social standards in public funding in the cultural and creative sector (CCS).<\/p>\r\n In 2025, UNI Europa will launch a campaign for minimum social standards by conditioning public funding for the cultural and creative sectors. Examples such as Germany\u2019s recent initiatives on minimum criteria in federal cultural funding, and the European Commission\u2019s announcement to consider a proposal on status and conditions of workers in the CCS regarding social conditionality both show how making public funded productions a benchmark for sustainable employment, fair and equal pay and good working conditions is possible. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n Johannes Studinger, Head of UNI \u2013 Media Entertainment and Arts said: \u201cIt is unacceptable that public funding is awarded to companies that make productions unsafe, create a pattern for unfair and unequal pay and unsafe working conditions in our sector. European and national funding programmes need to ensure that public funding rewards companies that respect collective bargaining and provide dignified, safe and unstainable working conditions. We will campaign to change the funding programmes for <\/em>.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Transformations unions can make for fair and sustainable working conditions in the live performance and audiovisual sectors with a particular to tackle the rapid technological change and structural transformations post-Covid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26952,"template":"","categories":[],"global-issues":[],"sectors":[16],"cross-sector-groups":[],"workers-rights":[],"regions":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-26951","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sectors-media-entertainment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\r\n\t