Nigerian Hotel Workers Visit

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Nigerian trade unionists Eniojukan Leke Success (center, in sweater vest), Augustine Gyuse Mbavough (4th from r) and Josiah Habu Kato (3rd from r) met with the Metro Washington Council’s Jos Williams (at far r), Rick Powell (far l), Alya Solomon (2nd from l) and DC Jobs with Justice’s Ruth Castel-Branco (4th from l) yesterday to discuss union issues in Nigeria and the United States. Success is the President of NUHPSW, the Nigerian hotel worker’s union, while Mbavough is the union’s General Secretary and Kato heads up NUHPSW’s legal and organizing department. The delegation is also meeting with hotel workers in Baltimore and Las Vegas during their weeklong visit. Also pictured: Michael Leslie (3rd from r) and Deddeh Tuly (2nd from r) of the Solidarity Center. - photo by Chris Garlock