Report on trip by the General Secretary of the National Union of Namibian Workers, Barnabus Tjizu, to a conference on Namibia in Chicago and also to Detroit, Washington, D.C., and New York for meetings with labor, church and government officials. In Detroit, Tjizu stayed with Dan Wainaina, co-chair of the Michigan Area Labor Committee Against Apartheid, who arranged a tour of an auto plant and meetings with local labor activists. The UAW International Relations Department also organized a Labor History Tour for Tjizu and a meeting with the editor of Solidarity, the UAW journal. The report says on July 27, more than 4,500 mineworkers at Tsumeb mines went out on strike. The report discusses the...
Report on trip by the General Secretary of the National Union of Namibian Workers, Barnabus Tjizu, to a conference on Namibia in Chicago and also to Detroit, Washington, D.C., and New York for meetings with labor, church and government officials. In Detroit, Tjizu stayed with Dan Wainaina, co-chair of the Michigan Area Labor Committee Against Apartheid, who arranged a tour of an auto plant and meetings with local labor activists. The UAW International Relations Department also organized a Labor History Tour for Tjizu and a meeting with the editor of Solidarity, the UAW journal. The report says on July 27, more than 4,500 mineworkers at Tsumeb mines went out on strike. The report discusses the Machinists Union, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), Mineworkers Union, the Longshoremen Workers Union, the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Floyd Flake, Rep. James Bilbray, Rep. Jan Meyer, Rep. John Miller, local activists, Stanley Hill, AFSCME local DC 37, Cleveland Robinson, District 65, the Hospital Workers Union, 1199, the Mineworkers Union of Namibia, Newmont Mining Corporation, the United Mineworkers of America President Richard Trumka, Owen Bieber, members of Congress, Senator Paul Simon, Rep. Howard Wolpe, migrant workers, single sex hostels, police, John Pandeni, the Food and Allied Workers' Union, Hendrik Witbooi, Daniel Tjongarero, Nico Bessinger, Ben Uulenga, living conditions, safety procedures, court costs, and wage increases. • U.S. Company Fires Striking Workers in Namibia • Union, SWAPO leaders Arrested • Funds Needed
