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Cannes Film Festival Workers Launch Fresh Call To Action Over Precarious Working Conditions
The group says their attempts to gain contractual rights like unemployment and retirement benefits have been “abruptly blocked.”
Cannes Film Festival staff are among a collective of French cultural workers who have launched a fresh call to action over what they have described as their precarious and unfair working conditions. One year ago, we mobilized to obtain better working conditions and, notably, to regain “intermittent employee” status for thousands of French film-festival workers. The four major trade unions (the CFDT, CGT, FO, and CFTC) and the management of the festivals, represented by FICAM, applied themselves to drafting an amendment covering “Film and TV Festivals,” to be appended to the collective bargaining agreement existing for ESCE (Entreprises au Service de la Création et de l’Événement: Services Required for Staging Events and Shows).
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