Extremely rare, this mobilization does not call into question the opening or holding of the festival itself, but could disrupt it, according to the collective behind the call.
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One week before the opening of the biggest French cinema event, the Cannes Film Festival, cinema workers are calling for a strike. Called “Under the screens, the waste”, the collective launched an appeal on Monday May 6 “of all employees of the Cannes Film Festival and parallel sections” aimed at “disturb”.
Extremely rare, this mobilization does not call into question the opening or holding of the festival itself, a spokesperson for the collective told AFP. The objective is not to harm the films that will be presented, but a strike could “disrupt the event”, she declared. For its part, the festival organization has not reacted yet, reports Agence France-Presse.
In its press release, the collective warns of “growing precariousness” workers in the cinema sector, emphasizing that “recent unemployment insurance reforms (…) tighten compensation rules (…)”. And this, while these employees alternate “short-term missions with periods of unemployment” without these activities falling under the regime of intermittent performance, deplores the press release.
