Forum on Workers' Rights in Liberia Tonight
Thursday, June 26, 2008
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Leaders of the Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia (FAWUL) will
wrap up their DC trip tonight at 6:30P with a public forum on the fight for
economic justice and workers’ rights in Liberia. Speakers at tonight’s event
will include FAWUL President Austin S. Natee, FAWUL Secretary General Edwin B.
Cisco, David D. Sackoh, Secretary General of the Forestry, Logging and Industrial Workers' Union of Liberia, and
Oretha D. Garway, Vice President of the Forestry, Logging and Industrial Workers
Union of Liberia. The workers received the AFL-CIO’s George Meany – Lane
Kirkland Human Rights Award last night for their fight to win the first-ever
independent, rank-and-file run union at the Liberian Firestone rubber plantation
(Labor
Updates 1/10/08 UC). The workers’ visit coincides with a Solidarity Center
photo exhibit and the launch of a new AFL-CIO and United Steelworkers of America
video on the workers’ struggle and victory. The photo exhibit runs through
Friday in the AFL-CIO lobby. Click
here to watch the video.