Moroccan Cafe and Restaurant Owners Plan Nationwide Strike Over Pandemic Response

During an online meeting on March 31 by the national council of the National Association of Cafe and Restaurant Owners in Morocco (ANPCRM), the Association invited all professionals in the sector to observe a 24-hour national strike on Friday, April 9.

According to Noureddine Haraq, president of the ANPCRM, this protest by cafe and restaurant owners comes in response to the "government’s contempt and the national vigilance committee towards all the warnings of the National Office, its proposals, correspondence and its calls to jointly find ways to overcome the crisis facing the country".

In the opinion of professionals in the cafe and restaurant sector, the government shows no willingness to stop the downward spiral of their sector of activity, hit hard by the coronavirus crisis. They also demand the correction of imbalances in the texts governing their sector.

The national office of the ANPCRM assures that it has exhausted all avenues of appeal to be heard by the executive, but unfortunately, the "government’s ignorance of their correspondence in which it alerted to the seriousness of the situation experienced by Moroccan professionals in this sector", it laments.

The association calls on its various national branches to meet this weekend to prepare this nationwide strike starting next Friday.