Announcement – Nomination List for FES Young Workers Training Programme 2023

The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) Nigeria has announced thirty-five young people as part of the 2023 Young Workers Programme. The young workers who made the nomination list are drafted from across trade unions in Nigeria to be part of the fifth (5) training programme cohort.

Out of the thirty-five (35) young people, two (2) youth leaders each are from the five (5) affiliates of IndustriALL in Nigeria, namely- NUEE, NUPENG, NUTGTWN, NUCFRLANMPE, SEWUN and AUTOBATE; one (1) youth from three (3) PSI affiliates such as NASU, NCSU, and Amalgamated Union; and four (4) young people from Civil Society Organisations (CSOs).

The following young workers were nominated by their unions

Over one hundred (100) young workers have completed the nine (9) months training programme, which began in 2019. The youth programme focuses on strengthening the voices of young trade unionists within the trade union movement in Nigeria to help identify and address the persistent challenges affecting active youth participation in trade unions in Nigeria, develop young workers' priorities, and present the same to union leadership.

Notably, it is designed as a platform to prepare young workers to

• ensure the mainstream of youth into existing trade union structures;
• build networks of youth leaders within and without trade unions;
• raise politically conscious youth leaders within trade unions;
• organise more young workers into trade unions;
• discuss the NLC Youth policy and promote the adoption and implementation of the youth policy in participating unions.