Oslo, May 30, 2022. Leovanys Ávila Góngora, member of the Secretariat of the Central Workers´ Union of Cuba (CTC), participated today in the opening session of the XXXV Congress of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO).
Peggy Hessen Følsvik, President of LO, delivered the keynote speech. Raymond Johansen, member of the Labor Party and chief of the Oslo City Council, also made a statement. Representatives of some international trade union organizations invited to the event also took the floor for delivering their messages.
In the session, the LO Honorary Award was presented to Martin Kolberg.
The Cuban ambassador to Norway, Maité Rivero Torres, was also present.
LO is the largest trade union organization in Norway, with more than 970 000 members. (Embassy of Cuba in Norway)