“Under the screens the Dèche”, the protest group had obtained a year ago the launch of negotiations in the hope of benefiting from the compensation regime for intermittents of the show. However, he ensures that the process is “interrupted for the moment”.
A collective of cinema precarious workers, who had threatened to strike before Cannes 2024, calls on Friday at the « mobilisation » A few days before the opening of the 78e Edition of the festival, said their press release sent to AFP. Bringing together projectionists, programmers or press officers, the collective “under the screens the Dèche” had obtained a year ago the launch of negotiations in the hope of benefiting from the compensation regime for intermittents of the show.
In its press release, the collective, however, makes the observation that this process is “For the moment interrupted”expresses his ” incomprehension “ And says he is ready to take action. “We call (…) to the mobilization of all the workers once again, because if we cannot live from our professions, what future for festivals? »»questions the collective in its press release, which does not specify which actions are envisaged.
Frozen process
Questioned by AFP, a member of the collective said that mobilizations were planned during the Cannes festival, which begins on Tuesday. In detail, employee unions and employers’ organizations had concluded in December, after six months of discussion, a branch agreement allowing these professionals to attach film festivals to the intermittent regime.
After a year of work, we are today in misunderstanding
Collective “under the screens the dèche”
“The objective was (…) to define and supervise the film and audiovisual festivals sector, provide it with a salary grid and a list of functions to both regulate the periods worked, but also and above all to find a solution for compensated periods”recalls the collective in its press release. These cinema workers hoped for “Getting out of the precariousness caused by the unemployment insurance reforms of 2021”continues the text.
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According to the press release, for this branch agreement to come into force, it remained at the Unédic to integrate it into the annex to unemployment insurance dedicated to the show technicians. However, the social partners who jointly manage the Unédic are not “Not managed to get along” At the end of April, freeing the process, the press release said. “After a year of work, we are today in misunderstanding. Many of us have held a year more, chaining short contracts and non -working periods with reduced amounts of sorrow, with the hope that a solution was in the process of being found ”deplores the collective.