GiantMonkeyMan
23rd November 2012, 11:27
Loach was due to receive the Gran Premio Torino lifetime achievement prize at the festival on Nov 26.
But the 76-year-old director of comedy caper The Angels Share, which TFF has subsequently cancelled screening, learned that cleaning and security services at Turins National Film Museum - the festivals parent organisation - had been outsourced, which resulted in wage and staff cuts.
Loach then released a statement explaining why he had pulled out of the festival.
It is with great regret that I have had to decline the Award from the Torino Film Festival, he said.
There is a serious problem. It is the issue of outsourcing services provided by the lowest paid workersThe fact that it is happening throughout Europe does not make it acceptable.
In Torino, the cleaning and security services at the Film Museum have been outsourced to Coop Rear. A wage cut was followed by allegations of intimidation and harassment. A number of people have been dismissed. So the lowest paid, the most vulnerable workers, lose their jobs because they oppose a wage cut.
http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/ken-loach-rejects-turin-award-over-worker-dispute/5049288.article
But the 76-year-old director of comedy caper The Angels Share, which TFF has subsequently cancelled screening, learned that cleaning and security services at Turins National Film Museum - the festivals parent organisation - had been outsourced, which resulted in wage and staff cuts.
Loach then released a statement explaining why he had pulled out of the festival.
It is with great regret that I have had to decline the Award from the Torino Film Festival, he said.
There is a serious problem. It is the issue of outsourcing services provided by the lowest paid workersThe fact that it is happening throughout Europe does not make it acceptable.
In Torino, the cleaning and security services at the Film Museum have been outsourced to Coop Rear. A wage cut was followed by allegations of intimidation and harassment. A number of people have been dismissed. So the lowest paid, the most vulnerable workers, lose their jobs because they oppose a wage cut.
http://www.screendaily.com/festivals/ken-loach-rejects-turin-award-over-worker-dispute/5049288.article