They want models to have the same employment rights as most other workers - proper breaks during shoots, health insurance, accident cover.
That framework need not be rocket science: for example, limits on hours worked; ensuring proper breaks; and setting aside time to discuss problems with a line manager.
During recent industrial action, our trust warned of the potential dangers to patient care and the service generally, not just if we took strike action, but if we took our proper breaks and didn't work for free.
A complex web of small rules widely obeyed – from paying your tax to insuring your car, to giving workers proper breaks – are the threads that weave a democratic social contract and a protective state.
The private security firm G4S has been using untrained staff to screen visitors to the Olympic Park in order to relieve specialists who have been working 12-hour shifts without proper breaks, an insider has claimed.
If we learn of any vendor who does not enable their employees to take lunch breaks, we would insist the vendor give proper breaks and comply with wage and hour laws.
"Having a good work-life balance, including regularly having time off, is key to staying mentally healthy," says Emma Mamo, head of workplace wellbeing at Mind. "Taking proper breaks allows staff to return refreshed and revived, and small business owners are no exception.
The Public and Commercial Services union said that up to 20,000 workers would join the walk-out, with more expected to support today's protest at the imposition of a below-inflation wage rise by refusing to do unpaid overtime and taking proper breaks.
