Sub-Sahara Africa has recently experienced a new wave of investments by multinational corporations (MNCs), in particular from global South countries such as South Africa, China, Brazil and India.
The world of work is changing and unions not only need to capture the effects of new technologies, but also find responses to these rapid changes brought about by the 4IR.
The sub-Saharan Africa region faces a serious energy crisis, with 80% of the people relying on traditional biomass for meeting their household needs and more than 50% lacking access to electricity.
Transforming unions into truly representative organizations and promoting their ability to advance the interests of workers require that unions organise their work informed by the idea of leveraging power.
In sub-Saharan Africa, informal employment is the rule rather than the exception: Informal workers make up 89% of the workforce in the region – the current state of labour in Africa is informal!
Global Union Federations (GUFs) in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Mr. Alexander Geiger
Trade Union Competence Centre Sub-Saharan Africa (TUCC)
