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Ken Loach’s Bectu Suspension Reversed, But Bitter Internal Dispute At Film & TV Union Rumbles On
Ken Loach and others were suspended last year from holding a decision-making role at Bectu, the UK’s biggest film and TV union.
EXCLUSIVE: Ken Loach has been restored to a decision-making role at Bectu after his shock suspension last year, but a bitter internal row at the UK’s biggest film and TV union shows no sign of abating. Loach and his colleagues were disciplined over how the branch oversaw the resignation of a representative who wrote a letter raising questions about the leadership of Mike Clancy, the boss of Prospect. Prospect’s appeals board found that WPD branch officers “seriously erred” when they treated the representative’s hurried statement as the “equivalent of a formal resignation” and not enough was done to “establish clarity and reach agreement.”
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