After a week of small and impromptu demonstrations, Cannes Film Festival workers are set to hold talks this afternoon with festival management, the CNC, and France’s other major entertainment unions about how to resolve their ongoing dispute over pay and worker benefits.
The last-minute meeting is being held here in Cannes. Other attendees include representatives from the French Ministries of Labor and Culture, Carrefour des Festivals, the Cannes Festival sidebar sections, the CGT, and the CFDT.
We’re told the central topic of discussion will be how to streamline the complex hiring and compensation process for French festival workers.
The attending Cannes Film Festival workers belong to the Precarious Film Festival Workers Collective, an unofficial union of French festival workers, which has been organizing the small demonstrations here in Cannes.
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