Close to 700 workers from Gendev Group at Walvis Bay petitioned the company, demanding full-time employment and protesting what they call "unfair labour conditions."

Swapo Party Central Committee member Laurencia Stephanus remembers the Founding President, Dr. Sam Nujoma, as instrumental in forming the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) in the 1970s.

The NUNW became the mouthpiece for workers' rights during the Apartheid era.