2023-11-24 17:01:58
On strike once more, a few hundred technicians working on the sets or post-production of series and broadcasts gathered this Friday in Paris to demand a “20% for all” wage increase. “Audiovisual +20%, otherwise nothing on your screens”, might we read on a banner hung in front of the headquarters of Mediawan, a French audiovisual production giant where a delegation was received. “It’s the first time that I have seen so many people mobilized in twenty years of career,” testifies Thomas (who did not wish to give his last name), fitter for a company working on Top boss, the M6 culinary competition. “The trigger is inflation,” he emphasizes, under a “Stopchef” sign.
“‘Who wants to be my partner’ for 20%”, asks Gaëlle (who also did not wish to give her last name), in post-production on the eponymous show, which demands that “the boxes of production go knocking on the doors of the chains.” According to the Spiac-CGT, 80 film and post-production teams took part in strikes and walkouts between Thursday and Friday, including those for the series Deter for France Télévisions, Indian cemetery for Canal+ or the show On Friday, everything is allowed for TF1.
Little impact for movement
But the impact of the movement, which began at the beginning of November for one or two days a week, is not being felt at this stage on the channels, with broadcasts often being distant. The unions want to move up a gear and are now pushing for a renewable strike. “The demand for an increase in wages may seem exorbitant, but it is making up for what has been lost,” explains Dominique Robert, co-president of the National Union of Technicians and Workers in Film and Television Production (SNTPCT). There has been no increase in minimum wages since 2007, according to the union organizations.
On the employers’ side, the Union Syndicale de la Production Audiovisuelle (USPA) and the Union of Independent Producers (SPI) assured ten days ago that they would make “a proposal to increase minimum wages” on December 5, following already two boosts at the start of 2023.
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