2023-07-01 18:00:03
Denis Gravouil, November 21, 2022, at the Ministry of Labor, in Paris. BERTRAND GUAY/AFP
By dint, we would almost end up worrying: why do we always come across him? The Odéon blocked by intermittent workers? Denis Gravouil. The Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière on strike? Denis Gravouil calls: “I studied there, I know the case well. » For the Catherine Corsini “affair” in Cannes, it is still Denis Gravouil, representative of the CGT on the board of directors, who pushes hard so that the film attacked for slippages denounced on the set is not presented in the official selection. And he who, at the Molières ceremony, wrote the text apostrophizing the Minister of Culture, read on stage by two actresses.
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Behind his desk, serene, shirt with small ironed flowers, Denis Gravouil, the secretary general of the CGT-Spectacle, listens to the litany of his fights with the humility of a seasoned veteran. “At the Molieres, he notes, little betrayal, the TV crew offered to play the text I had written on the teleprompters, pleading that it would be easier for the actresses to read… They gave the text to Jean-Marc Dumontet [le patron du théâtre et organisateur de la soirée, au Théâtre de Paris, proche d’Emmanuel Macron ] who passed it to Rima Abdul Malak…” He smiles, it’s fair game. Games of dupes, negotiations with three, four or five bands, he knows. The press too. Denis Gravouil always responds. Calm and upright in his boots on the union line. We will never find him in default of not supporting the troops.
“In theater houses, the position of the CGT is more and more destructive, exasperated an exasperated administrator, who asks to remain anonymous. Denis Gravouil holds a jargon speech and conservative positions on employment, while it suffers in the houses: the trades have changed; since the Covid-19, we have had difficulty recruiting and, as the shows run a lot, the technicians spend their time setting up and dismantling… All the houses are crossed by this malaise, but Gravouil and his comrades are too busy to hysterize the conflict against the artistic directors. They send leftist smokescreens to pretend they are strong. In reality, unionization concerns very few employees. »
It is difficult to quantify for a cultural sector extremely fragmented between various professions. Main trade union in the sector, the CGT claims 8,000 members and it is estimated that some 250,000 the number of jobs concerned, including intermittent workers. Dilemma: how to be both in defense of workers without appearing a threat to battered theaters and fragile films? The man, who sits at the Observatory of Creative Freedom, learned to walk on a ridge line.
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