GENERAL Secretary of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, and a Vice President of Nigeria Labour. Congress, NLC, Mr. Issa Aremu, has been elected into the executive council of the newly formed global manufacturing workers union, known as IndustrialALL.

The newly formed 50 million member-trade union movement named; IndustrialALL, is a new Global union Federation (GUF) that represents all manufacturing workers in the world.

It is a new merger federation of three hitherto workers’ federations in mines and metal, textile and garment as well as chemical manufacturing sectors world-wide.

The historic merger conference of the three federations, namely International Chemical, Energy and Mines Workers Federation (ICEM), International Textile Garment and Leather Workers Federation (ITGLWF) and International Metal Workers Federation (IMF) and the inaugural conference of the new Global Union Federation took place on Tuesday June 19th 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

With his election by 1400 delegates drawn from over 1,200 affiliate unions of IndustriaLL in 140 countries, Comrade Aremu together with five other elected executives from South Africa, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Tanzania represent over one million African manufacturing workers in the new global union.

Aremu brings to IndustriaLL his over two decades of activist experience in organizing, collective bargaining, grievance handling, representation and policy advocacy.