Started October 12, the movement has been growing steadily. According to unions, it now has 5 200 strikers in over 70 locations throughout France. One thousand eight hundred companies would be affected. 'And every day we are more' enthuses Raymond Chauveau the CGT.

Faced with the influx of workers to Fafih, each community has appointed a delegate to organize daily. Principal means of 1 082 African workers, Faganda Kone, 49, arrived in France 8 years ago. Diver then committed, he did not participate in social movement last year. They are friends who have told him about the strike orchestrated by the CGT. 'Here, says he, there is a little bit of all Malians, Mauritanians, Senegalese, Cameroonian ... 99% of them work in the restaurant business for several years, but this is the first time they strike. "

'Fortunately, the atmosphere is good'

Since the beginning of the occupation of the premises, the police came a dozen times. 'We're right next to the police and the Ministry of Interior. They have not expelled, but it will come. Meanwhile, all is well, 'said Eric Wichegrod, CGT delegate who participated in the movement of 2008. Each night, a group of twenty strikers slept on site. The space is cramped, but living together as a set score.