Cinema workers have staged a protest at the start of the BFI London film festival in defiance of a threat by their employer, Picturehouse, to sack those taking part in strike action.
Curzon, another cinema chain, agreed to pay its staff the independently calculated rate in 2014 after a similar dispute.
Picturehouse points out that Bectu agreed to a pay rise in September 2016 and claims that, once breaks were accounted for, front-of-house staff were paid more than the living wage.
The London living wage is calculated by an independent body, the Living Wage Foundation, and is £9.75 an hour.