Strike at Tomorrow Belongs to Us: filming of the Sète series disrupted for the fifth time since December

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This Tuesday, February 20, intermittent workers from the Tomorrow Belongs to Us show teams are on strike. They are responding to the national call launched by a union, the Spiac-CGT, demanding a 20% increase in wages.

And again! For the fifth time since December 2023 and the start of the national strike movement demanding a& nbsp;wage increase of 20%, intermittent entertainment workers were on strike on the set of Tomorrow Belongs to Us. Monday February 19, the renewal of the movement in Sète was approved by 79%, by 59% of voters.

This Tuesday, of the three film crews, one was not working, another had a one-hour walkout and the last, also impacted, nevertheless provided part of the work. filming.

Also internal demands

Around 9 a.m., around twenty strikers were present in front of the TelSet set, the company of production of Newen who takes care of DNA. "We are here following the surprise strike call from the Spiac-CGT launched Monday evening. We are demanding a 20% increase in everyone's salaries. It's been 20 years since we got a raise, and since then the cost of living has gone up and there is #39;inflation now", insists a striker.

This Tuesday evening, a meeting between the producer unions and those of intermittent entertainment workers is organized on the subject of the decoupling of collective agreements according to the different trades. "We must not it happens. If this is the case, it is possible that the Spiac-CGT will call for a new strike soon and that we will follow up at DNA", supposes our contact.  "And then, we are also here for internal grievances regarding expenses, break hours or even housing", adds another employee.

Post-production impacted

As for the post-production part of the series, which depends on Post & Prod (another Newen Studio company), she organized one-hour walkouts every day last week. This Tuesday, she will organize a new one between 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m..

"We decided this in solidarity with the plateau and for the dissatisfaction with the response to our salary demands, and the fact that not everyone is increased, indicates an internal source . We remain mobilized and ready to pass the second. Collective involvement is urgently needed."

Tomorrow belongs to us, still one of the solid bastions of the national strike movement

As we mentioned during the previous strike on February 8, the set of Tomorrow Belongs to Us still responds to the national strike call. On December 5, no less than 56 filmings, across France, were impacted by these protest movements, and there were only eight left on February 8, including that of DNA.

To the question: "why the movement is less and less followed in France, but still so much to Tomorrow belongs to us", the elements of answer are numerous. "Since we are a daily, we are even more concerned and we are also stubborn&quot ;, estimates one of the strikers. "Filming has ended. We are still here and not all the sets are responding to the latest surprise calls from Spiac-CGT", continues our first source of the day.

An agreement already signed

As a reminder, the renegotiations have already resulted in the signing of an agreement (amendment 17) between certain temporary worker unions of the show and that of the producers.

Thus, "TelSet has applied the changes brought by Amendment 17 and < em>our salaries, in production, were increased for the first time by 5% on February 2. And two other increases are planned to reach 10% overall, specified, during the previous strike, a TelSet employee.

For now, the series is being broadcast on TF1 n' still not impacted, although the various strikes have caused filming to be delayed.