Small Saint -Etienne Bulletin - Info Saint -Etienne: File - Interview - "The galley of intermittents is not yet completed" - article published by Cerise Rochet

At the time of "recovery", how are you?

Fred and Bastien: We feel that the technicians who started working again are really happy, it is a good good to meet, to be together, to get out of the isolation in which we end up.That said, the recovery will only be effective when people return to the show.

Angeline: we create, we play or we put on shows for sharing with the public.Without that, it does not make sense.And then, if I have to talk about my case, the recovery is not yet there.It's been a year since I have played, and I will not replay immediately, since many dates have been shifted to 2022, for more security in case the situation is redeveloped this fall.For my part, I therefore still feel a lot of wear and fatigue.

Despite everything, in recent months, the rooms have reopened, the events have resumed, and the white year has been extended until December.Does this mean that this return to the end of the crisis for the intermittents of the show?

Again, the answer is not so simple: yes, the extension of the white year was a relief, and will allow many intermittents to see the end of the tunnel.Despite everything, there are still a lot of uncertainties: the technicians sign their work contracts 20 minutes before starting to work, arriving on site.Who tells us that we will be recalled for the dates that have been pushed?Not to mention the pills that we have not made, which will decrease the amount of our replacement income from 2022, in the periods when we will not work.In addition, we also expect that after having been supported during the crisis, the conditions for granting the intermittent status of the show are rediscovered, even, called into question.

The galley is therefore not yet finished…

Not yet and then today, we see another problem appear as in catering, the crewboss, (who organize the work teams to set up and dismantle the spectacle sites) have trouble finding people: with reports, the seasons are dense and there are therefore too many shows for the number of qualified arms available, especially since many technicians have left the job during the crisis.

Under these conditions, we assume that your mobilization will continue?

Of course, a fortiori because the ideas that we have defended from the start do not only concern the intermittents of the show, but more generally the intermittent employment.It is the security agents, who, in the performance halls, ensure that everything is going well.It is the cleaning ladies, who the tomorrows of the show, come to clean the room at 4 am.It is the restaurateurs who install their food-trucks near the rooms during cultural events.

They do not have the same status as us, when they experience the same thing: periods of activity, followed by period without activity.They will be very harshly affected by the unemployment insurance reform: we will therefore continue to campaign for the benefit of a generalized intermittent, which offers a real replacement income in the periods of hollow, to all those who live theuse this way.

Precisely, the CIP42 was quickly very militant after its creation.Have your fights already started to pay?

The first victory is to have succeeded in imposing the expression "intermittent of employment" in the mouth of certain policies, and therefore, in the public debate.This means that awareness is underway.In addition, we quickly realized that the white year as it had been established included fairly crazy legal flaws, in particular with regard to health insurance.We were able to raise these issues, we have demonstrated the vulnerability of the situations, and certain cases that we have defended were able to do case law.

Finally, your mobilization reverses the situation a little: when we have always perceived intermittentness as a status "apart", you would almost like to make a standard…

Yes, and well beyond the show trades, moreover.Intermittent, it is not a job, it is today a status, but it is above all, and more and more, a situation, for many people.The CDI and everything related to it are no longer necessarily the norm today, so you have to find a way to secure people's income: in this, the operation of the intermittency of the show can be a goodmedium.