Short turnaround. Even shorter sleep.
Crew deserve rest, safety, and enough time to recover between calls. Exhaustion shouldn’t be part of the job description.
Support the campaign for proper turnaround times and safer working conditions across film & TV. ✊💤
Short turnaround. Long hours. Real people. BrokenTurnaround
#BrokenTurnaround #BECTU #FilmAndTV #CrewLife #BehindTheScenes
Broken turnaround = broken crew.
Burnout isn’t part of the job.
If you’ve experienced it, speak up 👇
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Spread the union love 🎬
New to Bectu? If you join this Heart Unions week 9-15 Feb 2026 you get three months free membership, just use the code HUW26.
It's never been a better time to join a union ❤️
Click our link in bio to find out more about joining Bectu 🔗
It’s been another busy year for Bectu members, we launched the largest-ever survey of behind-the-scenes creative workers and got some big union wins.
Watch our end of year video & read Head of Bectu @philippachilds Childs review of 2025 by clicking this post in our bio.
Strengthening the Art Technical Workforce: Sustainable, Fair & Inclusive Practices 📅 When & Where: Tues 16 Dec, 1 - 2pm (online) 🎟 Booking: Link in bio
How do we build a fairer, safer, more sustainable future for art technicians so they can support you and your institutions?
Join Sarah Titheridge and Phil Wilson-Perkin, experienced Art Technicians and educators from the BECTU Art Technicians union for a practical session on pay, progression, training, freelancer support, and developing a skilled, diverse technical workforce.
Expect insights on tiered pay systems, technician databases, freelance pool development, and better cross-sector collaboration.
A must-attend for any organisation that works with technicians.
The event is part of CVAN EM & WM’s Better Together series. Bi-monthly sessions are framed by a different urgent topic that is relevant to the East and West Midlands and wider arts and culture sector.
📸 CVAN EM Core Art Technician Training Programme with ArtTechSpace, Nottingham Castle (2023), photos by @a.grngr .
#BetterTogether #ArtTechnicians #ArtTechs #EastAndWestMidlands #VisualArts #OnlineEvent
Strengthening the Art Technical Workforce: Sustainable, Fair & Inclusive Practices 📅 When & Where: Tues 16 Dec, 1 - 2pm (online) 🎟 Booking: Link in bio
How do we build a fairer, safer, more sustainable future for art technicians so they can support you and your institutions?
Join Sarah Titheridge and Phil Wilson-Perkin, experienced Art Technicians and educators from the BECTU Art Technicians union for a practical session on pay, progression, training, freelancer support, and developing a skilled, diverse technical workforce.
Expect insights on tiered pay systems, technician databases, freelance pool development, and better cross-sector collaboration.
A must-attend for any organisation that works with technicians.
The event is part of CVAN EM & WM’s Better Together series. Bi-monthly sessions are framed by a different urgent topic that is relevant to the East and West Midlands and wider arts and culture sector.
📸 CVAN EM Core Art Technician Training Programme with ArtTechSpace, Nottingham Castle (2023), photos by @a.grngr .
#BetterTogether #ArtTechnicians #ArtTechs #EastAndWestMidlands #VisualArts #OnlineEvent
say yes, 🔥❤️🐾@calartsunited@sens_uaw@sbwuws and the Norwegian port workers union.
Ted says “Say yes and say no to the curved arrow 👿. And all those ‘independents’ Mr B-s has bought and swallowed. Don’t support strike breaking. #shoplocal and donate to strike funds wherever, whenever you can.“ 🪣
« Go Dasher Prancer Dancer Vixen Comet Cupid Donner Blitzen Rudy. Choose your negotiating team » 🦌✊🐾
🐾 #interspeciessolidarity 💘🐾🔥✊
🐾 🦌🛷
(Reprised back into the grid by popular demand)
💗The more members your union has, the louder our voice will be 📢
Take our recruitment challenge this week by speaking to five colleagues and asking them to join Bectu. Link in bio
Don’t miss YES WE CAN: a technical showcase exhibiting work made by our brilliant technicians in the @artanddesignshu at @sheffhallamuni The exhibition in the Post Hall Gallery, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield is open now and continues till Wednesday 6 December. #technician #artanddesign #making #sheffield #creativecommunity #artschool #practice
As part of #unionweek, an updated version of the @bectuunion Touring Guide to Good Practice is now available.
Additions include clarification on Equity clauses pertaining to Bectu staff, holiday and travel days, subsistence and touring allowance pro-rata’ing, per diems advice for chaperones and more.
Download via the link in our bio!
Join Bectu before the 12th November to get three months membership free and have a say in the next update to the Touring Guide moving forward.
#unionweek #bectu #bectuunion #joinaunion #unionstrong #goodpractice
Some of us attended the demo on Saturday as part of the artists and art workers bloc called by @artistsunionengland plus rank-and-file @bectuunion activists from a number of branches (E.g. Whitechapel Gallery, South London Gallery, Art Technicians)! This is what organised solidarity in culture looks like, we’ll attend again together at then next one! Free free Palestine! Ceasefire now!
