On June 25 Tony León, Secretary-General of Venezuela’s National Workers Union of the Ministry of People’s Power for Energy and Petroleum, met with U.S. workers and union leaders during the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit.

León extended an open invitation to the Third Union Conference of Nuestra America (Our America) scheduled for July 22-24 in Caracas. Ecuadoran and Brazilian national central unions hosted the previous meetings, first in Quito and next in Sao Paolo, to develop a common understanding of the global economic crisis and agenda for united struggle for workers and their organizations.

Published June 30, 2010