The press release says South African labor representative Nomonde Ngubo will give the Keynote Address at a labor conference on South Africa Saturday, June 11 at the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union; a news conference is scheduled on Monday, June 13 at 10:00 a.m. in the 2nd floor City Hall Press Room in Chicago to announce the plan of action adopted by unions at Saturday's labor conference; City Council members, including Alderman Danny K. Davis, and labor representatives will join Ngubo at the news conference. The press release says Nomonde Ngubo is an International Representative of the United Mine Workers (UMW) in Washington, D.C.; she is a founding member of the National Union...
The press release says South African labor representative Nomonde Ngubo will give the Keynote Address at a labor conference on South Africa Saturday, June 11 at the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union; a news conference is scheduled on Monday, June 13 at 10:00 a.m. in the 2nd floor City Hall Press Room in Chicago to announce the plan of action adopted by unions at Saturday's labor conference; City Council members, including Alderman Danny K. Davis, and labor representatives will join Ngubo at the news conference. The press release says Nomonde Ngubo is an International Representative of the United Mine Workers (UMW) in Washington, D.C.; she is a founding member of the National Union of Mineworkers, South Africa's largest union; she works through the UMW to build international labor solidarity. The press release says Ngubo also coordinates the work of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South Africa's largest labor federation, with U.S. unions; in her Saturday address, Ngubo will report on this week's strike by COSATU in South Africa, the largest general strike in South Africa's history. The press release says union leaders and members from throughout Illinois are expected to have a spirited discussion at the Saturday conference and to agree on a highly intensified plan of action to support trade unions in South Africa; discussion will center on pressuring Shell to pull out of South Africa, for all companies to cut off trade and for Congress to pass comprehensive mandatory sanctions; conference organizers are mobilizing union members for the June 16 Soweto Day Demonstration at the South African Consulate in Chicago. The press release says the labor conference is sponsored by the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid; it is cosponsored by the Roosevelt University Labor Education Division and the University of Illinois Chicago Labor Education Program. The press release discusses the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU).
