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The fear is that if architects walk out, what will their employers’ reaction be, particularly when those employers are contractors in Design and Build contracts? Unlike nurses and train drivers, buildings can be designed (badly) without architects involved; the world will still turn. Therefore, their leverage is arguably very small. However, it is to be hoped that partly because of the risk they would therefore be taking, employers will realise just how threatened these committed (if not ‘safety-critical’) staff feel. Knowing that they didn’t go into this to get rich, architects demanding better treatment should be offered support rather than the cold shoulder, when debating what should be expected of them.
James Parker, Editor 09.22
ON THE COVER... To enable BAFTA to remain at its London home in Picadilly, Benedetti Architects raised the roof and released historic roofl ights to provide a whole new fl oor for members
Cover image © Luca Piffaretti For the full report on this project, go to page 48
BAFTA HEADQUARTERS, LONDON Benedetti Architects literally raised the roof at BAFTA’s Piccadilly home to enable the organisation to double its capacity without having to make a premature exit
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e may well be entering an autumn of discontent, with a host of unionised industries, from postal and rail workers, to even barristers, taking strike action to try and safeguard their members against the effects of the £3,500 energy bills we are all likely to face this year.
Architects are starting to get interested in action, many facing mediocre earnings early in their career (£31,000 doesn’t get you a lot in London), in an increasingly precarious economic context. Having often invested heavily to study for seven years, pay rises are scarce, and unpaid overtime common.
United Voices of the World (UVW) is a union created to protect “precarious, low-paid and predominantly BAME and migrant workers” in a variety of outsourced industries. An architects’ wing was formed in 2019 (SAW-UVW), to combat inadequate contracts, antisocial hours, and low pay levels. Sitting alongside an unlikely grouping of professions including sex workers and barristers within the UVW’s umbrella, the emergence of this direct action-based body shows just how vulnerable some employees feel, against the turbulent international context. It also perhaps shows a growing momentum of staff looking to unionise across many employment sectors as living costs spiral, inspiring people who might not have previously considered this kind of action to join the fray.
Recently providing further inspiration, Architectural Workers United has been formed in the US to demand that the profession – which Brooklyn-based founder Andrew Daley believes is deeply undervalued – is ascribed greater tangible value. With architects’ work not directly tied to revenue, exhausting and exhaustive design hours are not rewarded, he says, long hours are expected as a given, and overtime is not recorded, to avoid adding costs to projects. The entire industry is geared towards an unprotected profession, and burnout is the result. Daley says: “With more workers interested in unionising, we envisage a future where the entire fi eld is lifted to have equal leverage as our peers in the building industry.”
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