The group of performance technicians and live events of the union TEKNIKER has denounced that "a state of permanent alarm is maintained" and that most professionals in the sector are "in a borderline situation". Despite the fact that shows with limited and restricted capacity have gradually returned, their conditions have not improved.

This Thursday, 2 July, they have concentrated in front of the Basque Government’s headquarters in Bilbao to claim independence. The professionals have occupied part of the road and have transferred their demands to the Basque Government, among them, "the regulation of the staging sector live". In the absence of their own regulatory regime, they feel "invisible" and "must suffer the consequences of precariousness in the exercise of their activity".

Municipal Technicians spokesman Antxon Unzaga has stated that show and live event technicians "demand protection from the group that defends their ability to continue working in the world of the show" and currently "are at serious risk of unemployment". As they have warned, they have only "few supports" that "make survival impossible", and they only benefit "a small part of the sector".

Precariousness is manifested mainly in working hours, in occupational safety and in the right to unemployment benefits. Despite performing the same work, they have different hiring methods, such as permanent, temporary, job-site, service or dismissal workers in the self-employed regime. They have therefore asked the Basque Government, first of all, “to approve the addition of aid” for shows and events, with a salary of EUR 1,200, until the works they can perform guarantee a “minimum income”.