Chambermaid and trade unionist Rachel Kéké, a figure in the struggle of the Ibis Batignolles strikers, won the second round of the legislative elections on Sunday with 50.3% of the vote against the candidate Ensemble!, the former minister for Sports, Roxana Maracineanu.
Chambermaid and trade unionist Rachel Kéké, a figure in the struggle of the Ibis Batignolles strikers, won the second round of the legislative elections on Sunday with 50.3% of the vote against the candidate Ensemble!, the former minister for Sports, Roxana Maracineanu. Invested by Nupes, Rachel Kéké, a CGT activist, becomes the first chambermaid to become a deputy in France. The new deputy intends to bring the voice of the “invisible” workers to the Assembly.
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This CGT activist became known during the 22-month strike of chambermaids at the Ibis Batignolles hotel in Paris, between 2019 and 2021, when she mobilized to improve wages and working conditions for women. of housekeeping in the face of the “contempt” of the management. “It’s a job that destroys the body. There are carpal tunnel syndromes, tendinitis, back pain …”, she explained to AFP during the campaign, still remembering this feeling, “as if (he) had been kicked everywhere”, after his first day as a cleaning lady, in 2003.
Mother of five children, Rachel Kéké was born in 1974 in the commune of Abobo, north of Abidjan, to a mother who sold clothes and a father who was a bus driver. She arrived in France in 2000 and was naturalized in 2015.