IndustriALL Global urges trade unionists to rise against xenophobia

IndustriALL Global Union has called on trade unionists worldwide and Africa in particular to rise against xenophobic attacks on immigrant workers anywhere.  The Vice President of IndustriALL Global Union, Comrade Issa Aremu, made this call in his remarks during the executive committee meeting of IndustriALL Global Union, Sub -Saharan Africa Region held in Harare, Zimbabwe […]

IndustriALL Global Union has called on trade unionists worldwide and Africa in particular to rise against xenophobic attacks on immigrant workers anywhere. 

The Vice President of IndustriALL Global Union, Comrade Issa Aremu, made this call in his remarks during the executive committee meeting of IndustriALL Global Union, Sub -Saharan Africa Region held in Harare, Zimbabwe on Thursday,  made available to newsmen in Kaduna over the weekend.

IndustriALL Global Union with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, represents 50 million workers in 140 countries in the mining, energy and manufacturing sectors, and champions the fight for better working conditions and trade union rights around the world.

Aremu condemned what he describes as “the poor on poor senseless violence urging the trade unionists in Africa” to isolate dubious and corrupt politicians who want to shift the blames of their criminal failure on service delivery on foreign workers. 

He called on the unions to demand for inclusive job-led growth that must create jobs for all Africans and stop the current voluntary slavery through suicidal emigration via the Mediterranean Sea.