This Friday, the climbs of the steps and the screenings of the Cannes Film Festival will take place against a backdrop of social protest. While the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes has taken, a few days ago, a decree prohibiting any demonstration in Cannes around the Croisette, the CGT intends to "make its cinema", this Friday, on the sidelines of the festival.
The union intends to bring together employees of the hotel sector for a fixed rally in front of the Carlton Hotel from 13 p.m. to 15 p.m. This place was obviously not chosen at random. First, the Carlton Hotel, which reopened this year after three years of work, has always been associated with the very image of the Cannes Film Festival. But above all, it makes it possible to circumvent the ban on demonstrations since this private esplanade does not fall within the perimeter of the prefecture.
"We had to limit the number of people we plan to gather to avoid encroaching on the forbidden zone," Ange Romiti, elected CGT and general secretary of the CGT union of hotels, cafes and restaurants in Cannes, told AFP.
Next mobilization on May 21
In addition to the pension reform, which will be at the heart of another demonstration planned for Sunday in Cannes, the CGT also denounces "the working conditions of a hundred employees of the Carlton, out of a total of 600, deprived of natural light in the basement" of the luxurious establishment classified five stars. The matter has been referred to the labour inspectorate.
Two days later, Sunday, May 21, late morning, a declared demonstration, at the call of an inter-union gathering CGT, Solidaires, FSU and Unsa, will be held on the boulevard Carnot, still outside the forbidden perimeter.
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The organizers want to say their refusal of the pension reform but also that of unemployment insurance and its consequences on the intermittents of the show and the seasonal workers, said a local official of the CGT, without excluding "surprise actions" during the festival.
