From 2010 to 2014, Fralib tea processing factory, near Marseille in France, was the arena of an important worker’s struggle. The employees are engaged in a fight against a food multinational company to prevent the relocation of the factory. They reclaim the machines to build a cooperative carrying social and environmental values. This struggle leads to reconsider the workshop relationships under neoliberal labour process. This article shows how individualistic and resistant behaviours go together on the line and that the ideal of «solidarity» advocated by Fralib workers during the struggle is built upon the overcoming of the internal oppositions built by the management since late 80’s.