The filming of “Tomorrow Belongs to Us” and “Here Everything Begins” are heavily impacted by a technicians’ strike, in Sète (Hérault) and Saint-Laurent-d’Aigouze (Gard), in Occitanie, indicated this Wednesday morning at 20 minutes the Union of professionals in the audiovisual and cinema industries (Spiac)-CGT, confirming the information from Free Midday. When contacted by us, Newen, the company which produces the two TF1 series, did not wish to make any comments on this subject for the moment.
This technicians’ strike, launched at the call of the technicians’ unions, blocks the normal production of the two front page serials. The movement began on Tuesday and was continued this Wednesday. It should continue on Thursday, the day when a meeting between technicians’ and producers’ unions will take place, to try to put an end to the discontent.
“We haven’t had a raise in over ten years”
At the call of the Spiac-CGT, the strikers are demanding from production companies a 20% increase in technicians’ salaries. “This 20% corresponds to a catch-up in the cost of living, because we have not had an increase for more than ten years,” laments a striker, to 20 minutes. We only receive social minimums. » The technicians’ unions also demand that technicians be paid in the same way, whether they work on fiction, streaming broadcasts, documentaries, live performance recordings, animated films, etc.
Other fiction filming, but also streaming broadcasts, are also impacted by this strike movement, which is growing more and more day after day in France, welcomes the Spiac-CGT union, on his Facebook page.