Participants in the National Workshop On Strategies For Local Organizing held from February 28 – March 1 organized by The Africa Fund. Over two dozen key labor activists, including representatives of the New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco Bay Area labor committees, the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union (UAW) International Affairs representative John Christensen, Mineworkers Special Projects Coordinator Kenneth Zinn, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) representative Edgar De Jesus, and District 1199C AFSCME, President Henry Nicholas joined National Union of Metalworkers...
Participants in the National Workshop On Strategies For Local Organizing held from February 28 – March 1 organized by The Africa Fund. Over two dozen key labor activists, including representatives of the New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco Bay Area labor committees, the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union (UAW) International Affairs representative John Christensen, Mineworkers Special Projects Coordinator Kenneth Zinn, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) representative Edgar De Jesus, and District 1199C AFSCME, President Henry Nicholas joined National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) Regional Secretary Bethuel Maserumule (fourth from right) to discuss the future of locally-based U.S. labor solidarity work.
