The motto of the press release, published friday may 12 by the union, is clear: “The CGT makes its cinema in Cannes. » The day before, the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes issued an order prohibiting any demonstration in Cannes around the Croisette during the film festival.
This administrative act is “same as previous years”, she told Agence France-Presse. The restrictions cover the entire duration of the 76e edition of the festival, from Tuesday May 16 to Sunday May 28, and concern a perimeter encompassing the surroundings of the Palais des festivals, the Croisette and the streets adjacent to it, specifies this decree.
The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) has already planned various actions, as part of its opposition to the pension reform.
Gatherings planned outside the prohibited perimeter
Friday, May 19 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., the union intends to bring together employees in the hotel sector for a fixed gathering, on the forecourt of the Carlton, a private hotel to which the ban taken by the prefecture does not apply.
Two days later, Sunday May 21, at 11 a.m., a demonstration declared at the call of an inter-union grouping CGT, Solidaires, FSU and UNSA, will be held on Boulevard Carnot, outside the prohibited perimeter. This demonstration will target the reform of pensions but also that of unemployment insurance and its consequences on intermittent entertainment and seasonal workers, said a local CGT official, without excluding “surprise action” during the festival.
The same Sunday, at 10 p.m., the CGT announced the screening “by invitation”at the Palais des Festivals,Amor, Mujeres y Flores, a 1989 documentary about Colombian workers victimized by pesticides in the flower industry. At the end of this film, broadcast on 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 in particular”.
On April 21, as part of their announcement of “one hundred days of action and anger” – in response to the hundred days of action promised by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, “in the service of France” –the CGT Energie unions had mentioned “energy disturbances”targeting in particular the Cannes Film Festival.