The ITUC Regional Organisation for Africa (ITUC-Africa) is a regional organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation, representing trade unions from countries in Africa. There are 56 national trade union federations affiliated to ITUC-Africa, from 45 countries, and representing a total of 15 million workers.
History The organisation was founded in 2007, at a congress in Accra, with the merger of the ICFTU African Regional Organisation and the World Confederation of Labour's Democratic Organization of African Workers' Trade Union.
The organisation has six main departments, handling conflict resolution, economic & social policy, education, gender & equality, HIV/AIDS, and human & trade union rights. In its own words, ICFTU-AFRO seeks to fight poverty, unemployment and all forms of discrimination, exploitation, arbitrary unrests, detention without trial and unlawful dismissals.
Affiliates Union federation Acronym Country General Centre of Independent and Free Unions of Angola CGSILA Angola National Union of Angolan Workers UNTA-CS Angola Botswana Federation of Trade Unions BFTU Botswana Confédération Générale des Syndicats des Travailleurs de Madagascar FI.SE.MA. Madagasacar Christian Confederation of Malagasy Trade Unions SEKRIMA Madagasacar United Autonomous Unions of Madagascar USAM Madagasacar Confédération des Syndicats des Travailleurs Malagasy Révolutionnaires FISEMARE Madagasacar Malawi Congress of Trade Unions MCTU Malawi Mauritius Labour Congress MLC Mauritius Mauritius Trade Union Congress MTUC Mauritius National Trade Unions Confederation NTUC Mauritius Mozambique Workers' Organization OTM Mozambique Trade Union Congress of Namibia TUCNA Namibia Trade Union Congress of Swaziland TUCOSWA eSwatini Zambia Congress of Trade Unions ZCTU Zambia Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ZCTU Zimbabwe Confederation of South African Workers' Unions CONSAWU South Africa Federation of Unions of South Africa FEDUSA South Africa Congress of South African Trade Unions COSATU South Africa National Council of Trade Unions NACTU South Africa Union Interprofessionnelle de la Réunion UIR-CFDT Reunion General Union of the Workers of São Tomé and Príncipe UGT-STP Sao Tomé and Principe National Organization of the Workers of São Tomé and Príncipe – Central Union ONTSTP-CS Sao Tomé and Principe Confederation of Cameroon Trade Unions CSTC Cameroon Union of Free Trade Unions of Cameroon USLC Cameroon General Confederation of Free Workers of Cameroon CSAC CameroonConfédération Syndicale des Travailleurs de Centrafrique CSTC Central African Republic General Union of Central African Workers USTC Central African Republic National Confederation of Central African Workers CNTC Central African Republic Free Confederation of Chadian Workers CLTT Chad Union of Trade Unions of Chad UST Chad Congolese Trade Union Confederation CSC Republic of the Congo Confédération des Syndicats Libres Autonomes du Congo COSYLAC Republic of the Congo Democratic Confederation of Labour CDT Democratic Republic of the Congo Union Nationale des Travailleurs du Congo UNTC Democratic Republic of the Congo Confédération Syndicale du Congo CSC Democratic Republic of the Congo Confédération Gabonaise des Syndicats Libres CGSL Gabon Confédération Syndicale Gabonaise COSYGA Gabon Confederation of Trade Unions of Burundi COSYBU Burundi Trade Union Confederation of Burundi CSB Burundi Confédération des Travailleurs et travailleuses de Comores CTTC Comoros Union of Djibouti Workers UDT Djibouti National Confederation of Eritrean Workers NCEW Eritrea Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions CETU Ethiopia Central Organization of Trade Unions COTU (K) Kenya Trade Union Centre of Workers of Rwanda CESTRAR Rwanda Seychelles Federation of Workers' Unions SFWU Seychelles Federation of Somali Trade Unions FESTU Somalia South Sudan Workers Trade Union Federation SSWTUF South Sudan Trade Union Congress of Tanzania TUCTA Tanzania Zanzibar Trade Union Congress ZATUC Tanzania National Organization of Trade Unions NOTU Uganda Centrale des Syndicats Autonomes du Bénin CSA Benin Union Nationale des Syndicats des Travailleurs du Bénin UNSTB Benin Confédération des organisations syndicales indépendantes du Bénin COSI BeninGeneral Confederation of the Workers of Benin CGTB Benin Centrale de syndicats du privé et de l’informel du Bénin CSIPB Benin Confédération Syndicale Burkinabé CSB Burkina Faso Confédération Nationale des Travailleurs Burkinabé CNTB Burkina Faso Organisation Nationale des Syndicats Libres ONSL Burkina Faso Union Syndicale des Travailleurs du Burkina Faso USTB Burkina Faso União Nacional dos Trabalhadores de Cabo Verde – Central Sindical UNTC-CS Cabo Verde Centrale des Syndicats Libres de Côte d'Ivoire DIGNITE Côte d'Ivoire Union Générale des Travailleurs de Côte d'Ivoire UGTCI Côte d'Ivoire Federation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Ivory Coast FESACI Côte d'Ivoire Centrale Syndicale Humanisme CSH Côte d'Ivoire Gambia Workers' Confederation GWC Gambia Ghana Federation of Labour GFL Ghana Trades Union Congress of Ghana TUC Ghana Confédération Nationale de Travailleurs de Guinée CNTG Guinea Organisation Nationale des Syndicats Libres de Guinée ONSLG Guinea Union Syndicale des Travailleurs de Guinée USTG Guinea Union Nationale des Travailleurs de Guinée Bissau UNTGB Guinea-Bissau Liberia Labour Congress LLC Liberia Confédération Syndicale des Travailleurs du Mali CSTM Mali Union Nationale des Travailleurs du Mali UNTM MaliDemocratic Confederation of Workers of Niger CDTN Niger Confédération Nigérienne du Travail CNT Niger Union des Syndicats des Travailleurs du Niger USTN Niger Nigeria Labour Congress NLC Nigeria Confédération des Syndicats Autonomes du Sénégal CSA Senegal Union Nationale des Syndicats Autonomes du Sénégal UNSAS Senegal Democratic Union of Senegalese Workers UDTS Senegal National Confederation of Senegalese Workers CNTS Senegal Confédération nationale des travailleurs du Sénégal – Forces du changement CNTS-FC Senegal Central Confederation of Trade Unions CCOTU Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Labour Congress SLLC Sierra Leone Confédération syndicale des travailleurs du Togo CSTT Togo Union Nationale des Syndicats Indépendants du Togo UNSIT Togo Confédération Nationale des Travailleurs du Togo CNTT Togo Union Général des Syndicats Libres UGSL Togo Union Générale des Travailleurs Algériens UGTA Algeria Confédération Générale des Travailleurs de Mauritanie CGTM Mauritania Confédération Libre des Travailleurs de Mauritanie CLTM Mauritania Union des Travailleurs de Mauritanie UTM Mauritania Confédération Nationale des Travailleurs de Mauritanie CNTM Mauritania Democratic Confederation of Labour CDT Morocco Union Générale des Travailleurs du Maroc UGTM Morocco Union Marocaine du Travail UMT Morocco Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail UGTT Tunisia
Leadership General Secretaries 2007: Kwasi Adu-Amankwah 2023: Joel Akhator Odigie
Presidents 2007: Mody Guiro 2023: Martha Tinny Molema
References
2004 ICFTU-AFRO news archives
External links Website of ITUC-Africa