African Trade Unionists have called for trade policies sensitive to the needs of workers across the globe.
The continental workers’ movement while congratulating the new Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told her to be guided by history of the body in Africa which it says “in many respects fostered de-industrialization and job losses”.
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A statement signed by Vice-president, Industrial Global Union, Issa Aremu and Joseph Montisetse of South Africa’s National Union of Mine Workers, said workers want the WTO to partner with the International Labour Organisation, ILO, to ensure the dismantling of institutional constraints against workers exercising their fundamental rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining in its member countries
Editor-Oloyede Oworu
