What if the biggest star on the red carpet this year was the CGT? As “in previous years”, the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes issued an order prohibiting any demonstration in Cannes, around the Croisette, during the film festival. This ban covers the duration of the 76th edition of the festival, from Tuesday until Sunday May 28, and concerns a well-defined perimeter encompassing the surroundings of the Palais des Festivals, the Croisette and the streets adjacent to it, specifies this decree taken THURSDAY.
Despite these restrictions, the CGT has already planned various actions, as part of its opposition to the pension reform, behind a clear slogan: “The CGT makes its cinema in Cannes”. Thus, Friday, May 19 from 1 to 3 p.m., it intends to bring together employees of the hotel sector for a fixed gathering, on the forecourt of the Carlton, a private place excluded from the ban taken by the prefecture.
The pension reform in the viewfinder
Two days later, Sunday May 21, at 11 a.m., a declared demonstration, at the call of an inter-union grouping CGT, Solidaires, FSU and Unsa, will be held on Boulevard Carnot, outside the prohibited perimeter. This event will target the reform of pensions but also that of unemployment insurance and its consequences on intermittent entertainment workers and seasonal workers, said a local CGT official, without excluding “surprise actions” during the festival.
The same Sunday, May 21, at 10 p.m., the CGT announces the screening “by invitation”, at the Palais des Festivals, of the documentary Amor, Mujeres y Flores, a 1989 film about these Colombian workers who are victims of pesticides in the flower industry. At the end of this film, broadcast at the initiative of the SPIAC-CGT union and the 50/50 and Femmes à lacamera collectives, there will be a debate on “the place of women in the world of work and in the credits of films especially “.
“We won’t give up! »
On April 21, as part of their announcement of “100 days of action and anger”, in the face of the 100 days of action promised by the Head of State Emmanuel Macron “in the service of France”, the trade unions of the CGT Energie had notably mentioned “energy disturbances”, aimed in particular at the Cannes festival.
” In May, do what you like ! The Cannes film festival, the Monaco Grand Prix, the Roland-Garros tournament, the Avignon festival could end up in the dark! We won’t give up! “, they had explained.