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Cannes Staffers to Protest Working Conditions at Opening Ceremony
Freelance workers at the Cannes Film Festival, supported by French labor org Sous les écrans la dèche, plan protest at the opening ceremony.
Freelance workers at the Cannes Film Festival, supported by the French labor org Sous les écrans la dèche (Broke Behind the Screens), plan to stage a protest for the second consecutive year at this evening’s glamorous opening ceremony. Sous les écrans la dèche, which brings together hundreds of workers at festivals, from projectionists to drivers and caterers, issued a statement saying that those actions yielded negotiations to come up with a new collective agreement that would protect the livelihood of freelance workers at the film and TV festival, but talks froze after six months of discussions, said the org, which was hoping to see an annex added to the unemployment insurance regulations. Celine Petit, a high-ranking CGT official based in Nice, told Variety that the syndicate was supporting Sous les écrans la dèche and called for as many workers as possible to participate in a watershed moment on opening night.
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