France’s Key Entertainment Union CGT-Spectacle Set To Endorse Cannes Strike
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: France’s main union for people employed in the entertainment and culture sectors – CGT-Spectacle – is poised to give its official support for planned strike action by festival workers during the upcoming edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Festival workers attached to the Cannes Film Festival, its parallel sections of Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week and a number of other French film festivals announced earlier this week that they had voted to take strike action during Cannes’ 81st edition (May 14 to 25) due to unheeded demands on pay and their employment status. “The CGT-Spectacle supports the demands and the strike movement… and we are also in close contact with these employees,” a spokesperson told Deadline, adding that a statement officially confirming the union’s support would likely be published in the coming days.
The collective representing the festival workers also plans to stage several public protests during the two-week event and this week launched an online petition in support of their campaign, which has been circulated widely across social media sites by French industry figures.
The petition is private, so it’s currently not possible to see how many people have signed. The official support of the CGT-Spectacle union would be a coup for the festival workers, who have yet to reveal what form their strike action will take.
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