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75th anniversary of the International Music Council

26.01.2024 Cultural policies, Music education, Public policies, Status of the artist

IMC five music rights (English)FIM con­grat­u­lates the International Music Council (IMC) on its 75th anniversary!

Founded in 1949, the IMC cam­paigns tire­less­ly for uni­ver­sal access to music through five “music rights”:

The right for all chil­dren and adults:
 — To freely express them­selves musi­cal­ly;
 — To learn musi­cal lan­guages and skills; and
 — To have access to musi­cal involve­ment through par­tic­i­pa­tion, lis­ten­ing, cre­ation and information.

The right for all musi­cal artists:
 — To devel­op their artistry and com­mu­ni­cate it through all media, with prop­er facil­i­ties at their dis­pos­al; and
 — To obtain just recog­ni­tion and fair remu­ner­a­tion for their work.

FIM thanks the IMC and its team for their remark­able efforts to pro­mote musi­cal prac­tice and respect for the cre­ative work of music pro­fes­sion­als. […]
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EU | Towards a directive on the working conditions of artists

29.11.2023 Updated on 13.12.2023 Europe, Public policies, Social dialogue, Social protection, Status of the artist

EU Parliament logoOn November 21, 2023, the European Parliament adopt­ed by a com­fort­able major­i­ty of 433 votes to 100 and 99 absten­tions, the leg­isla­tive ini­tia­tive report for an EU frame­work for the social and pro­fes­sion­al sit­u­a­tion of artists and work­ers in the cul­tur­al and cre­ative sec­tors pre­sent­ed by MEPs Antonius Manders (EPP, Netherlands) and Domènec Ruiz Devesa (S&D, Spain).

In the past, the European Parliament has often lament­ed the pre­car­i­ous social con­di­tions of European artists and the lack of ade­quate social pro­tec­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly for pro­fes­sion­als with high mobil­i­ty. For the first time in its his­to­ry, it has just asked the European Commission to cre­ate a bind­ing leg­isla­tive frame­work in order to improve the work­ing con­di­tions of artists and oth­er pro­fes­sion­als in the cul­tur­al and cre­ative sec­tors. […]
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EU | Union representation for freelances

19.06.2023 Updated on 29.11.2023 Europe, Labour rights, Precarious work, Public policies, Social dialogue, Social protection, Status of the artist, Working relationship

FIM delegation at Madrid conferenceOn the 8 and 9 June 2023 the final con­fer­ence was held in Madrid for the European project (car­ried out by FIM, FIA, UNI-​MEI and EFJ) relat­ing to union organ­i­sa­tion and col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing for free­lances in the per­form­ing arts and media sec­tors. Hosted by Spanish cen­tral trades union bod­ies CC.OO. and UGT, the con­fer­ence was pre­ced­ed on 7 June by the final meet­ing of a legal work­ing group, bring­ing togeth­er, around the four fed­er­a­tions, uni­ver­si­ty aca­d­e­mics, researchers and lawyers spe­cial­is­ing in labour law and com­pe­ti­tion law.

The project is based on three pillars:

1. Union organ­i­sa­tion. Training activ­i­ties were pro­vid­ed by spe­cial­ists Becky Wright and Tara O’Dowd, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with mem­ber unions of the four fed­er­a­tions. […]
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IAEA recommendations re. the management of the Covid-​19 crisis

10.04.2020 Updated on 07.07.2020 Covid-19, Health and Safety, Precarious work, Public policies

IAEA logo

The speed with which the covid-​19 pan­dem­ic has spread across the world has led many gov­ern­ments to place excep­tion­al con­straints on their pop­u­la­tions, to try and lim­it its propagation.

The ini­tial mea­sures aimed pri­mar­i­ly at lim­it­ing large gath­er­ings, includ­ing con­certs, shows and oth­er cul­tur­al events. Shortly after, venues receiv­ing the gen­er­al pub­lic were closed. These mea­sures caused an imme­di­ate col­lapse of income in the Arts and Entertainment sec­tor. Having been pro­found­ly impact­ed from the out­set of this his­toric cri­sis, the whole of the sec­tor is now at a stand­still. A con­sid­er­able num­ber of work­ers are with­out income and the sur­vival of many com­pa­nies is uncer­tain. […]
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Covid-​19 | Response of musicians’ unions

19.03.2020 Updated on 11.03.2021 Covid-19, Public policies, Public services

Last updat­ed: 13 November 2020

You will find here­after nation­al reports by musi­cians’ unions on the sit­u­a­tion in their respec­tive coun­tries re. the Covid-​19 cri­sis, its con­se­quences on the music sec­tor and the response that they have devel­oped in sup­port of musi­cians whose jobs and rev­enues are impact­ed by this crisis.

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Members of Korea’s National Opera Choir must be reinstated!

13.04.2019 Updated on 25.04.2019 Asia, Fundamental rights, International solidarity, Public policies, Public services

Korea National Opera Choir members protest

Korea’s National Opera Choir was dis­man­tled in 2009 by deci­sion of the con­ser­v­a­tive gov­ern­ment of Lee Myung-​Bak, a deci­sion whose arbi­trary and unjus­ti­fied nature has since been brought to light.

Ten years after the event, cer­tain choir mem­bers are still fight­ing to be rein­stat­ed, but are com­ing up against ret­i­cences from the admin­is­tra­tion which car­ried out their dis­missal in 2009 and today fears hav­ing to rec­og­nize its past errors.

Korea’s National Opera Choir was found­ed in 2002 to pro­vide the insti­tu­tion with a choir to match its rep­u­ta­tion and ambi­tions. Acclaimed by the press, this high-​level ensem­ble took part in some 80 spec­ta­cles a year, and also gave numer­ous con­certs through­out the coun­try and abroad. […]
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Senegal | AMS is changing everything for the music sector

28.05.2018 Africa, Decent work, Gender equality, International trade union co-operation, Labour rights, Precarious work, Public policies, Social dialogue, Status of the artist, Working relationship

Senegal workshop (May 2018)

In keep­ing with the meet­ing held in March 2017, FIM and AMS organ­ised a new work­shop in Dakar from 14 to 16 May 2018, with­in the scope of the region­al pro­gramme for union train­ing backed by Swedish con­fed­er­a­tion Union to Union. On this occa­sion, vis­its to the Ministry of Labour, employ­ers and ILO helped define a coher­ent strat­e­gy towards con­clud­ing col­lec­tive agree­ments and mak­ing head­way along gen­der equal­i­ty lines.

The work­shop, which opened with a speech from the Minister of Culture, was also attend­ed by a rep­re­sen­ta­tive from UNESCO’s Dakar Office and a rep­re­sen­ta­tive from ILO-​ACTRAV. The Ministry of Labour had del­e­gat­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives for the whole dura­tion of the work­shop. […]
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France | CGT reacts to Labour reform

08.09.2017 Updated on 13.05.2018 Fundamental rights, Labour rights, Public policies, Working relationship

CGT state­ment

CASUALIZATION AS A SOCIAL MODEL IN FRANCE? DEFINITELY NO!

On 31 August, the French gov­ern­ment final­ly pub­lished decrees which alter labour law, for the sec­ond time in lit­tle over a year. Fewer rights for work­ers, more pow­er for employ­ers: that is, in a nut­shell, the con­tents of this new law.

This fur­ther social retrench­ment goes much fur­ther than the pre­vi­ous reform (so-​called “El-​Khomri Law”), although the El-​Khomri Law was explic­it­ly con­demned by the United Nations as con­trary to France’s inter­na­tion­al Commitments1 and against which a com­plaint has been lodged with the International Labour Organisation2.

Under the pre­text of effi­cien­cy – but more so in order to reduce to nil any in-​depth dis­cus­sion and restrict protests – this pro-​employer reform has been adopt­ed through a fast-​track process, i.e. […]
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