Inequality in the Arts

Inequality is often rife throughout all industries within the North and South of Ireland. It is, however, particularly prevalent within the cultural industries where people are often cast or given work on the basis of nepotism and the old boy network. It is also not unknown for more devious employers to use the offer  of a job to exploit cultural workers. This Congress calls on the ICTU to lobby both governments in the North and South to ensure that where public investment is given to professional organisations in theatre or film and television, whether in the form of direct funding or through tax breaks, that a policy of inclusive casting is adopted which is open and transparent to all and gives equal opportunity to all sections of society irrespective of gender, sexuality, minority ethnic or disability. Adopted

EQUITY