Williams In Nigeria To Help Build Movement

Monday, August 7, 2006

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

 

Metro Council President Jos Williams arrived in Nigeria last night for a week-long effort in partnership with the Organizing Institute (OI) of the AFL-CIO to rebuild the organizing capacity of the Nigerian labor movement. President Williams is being fully briefed on the situation in Nigeria and will be having several meetings with union leaders and civil society over the next week. The OI is conducting its training in partnership with unions for several affiliates of the Nigerian labor movement, which is preparing for major changes under the new labor laws, which no longer guarantee union membership and requires unions to recruit members and upcoming changes in leadership. As part of this change, the OI’s  engagement has also changed to increasingly focus on meat-and-potatoes union-building programs. In that context, President Williams – who serves on the Board of the Solidarity Center, which organized the trip -- will be speaking to union leaders about labor-community coalition building and the fundamentals of building a member driven union movement.

 

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