GFL challenges TUC’s claim as sole mouthpiece of Ghanaian workers

The Ghana Federation of Labour (GFL) has clarified that the Trades Union Congress (TUC) nary longer holds the ineligible presumption arsenic the sole mouthpiece of organised labour successful Ghana, pursuing legislative changes made successful 2003.

Speaking connected Accra 100.5 FM’s Ghana Yensom greeting amusement connected Tuesday, May 6, 2025, GFL General Secretary Abraham Koomson explained that the Industrial Relations Act of 1965 (Act 299), which designated the TUC arsenic the accredited typical of the labour movement, was repealed and replaced with the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651).

He noted that the archetypal instrumentality was inconsistent with International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions 87 and 98, which beforehand state of association, and conflicted with the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.

Koomson pointed retired that the Labour Act of 2003 replaced the TUC’s monopoly with a broader conception of “Organised Labour.”

However, the caller instrumentality did not supply a ineligible explanation for Organised Labour, leaving a vacuum that the TUC, according to him, has continued to exploit by positioning itself arsenic the sole typical of Ghanaian workers.

“By law, the TUC is conscionable 1 of galore labour unions successful the country. It is not the embodiment of Organised Labour,” Koomson emphasised.

He added that the GFL challenged the TUC’s presumption successful tribunal successful 2013, resulting successful a consent judgement successful 2016 that reaffirmed the request for a much inclusive operation for organised labour.

He further criticised the authorities for failing to supply a wide explanation and organization model for Organised Labour, a spread that has enabled the TUC to proceed assuming a cardinal role.

Koomson stressed that this stance violates ILO conventions and Ghana’s constitution, some of which safeguard workers' rights to freely associate.

Responding to these claims connected the aforesaid programme, the President of the TUC, Bernard Owusu, dismissed Koomson’s assertions and urged the nationalist to disregard them.

He insisted that the TUC has nary issues with the GFL but accused Mr. Koomson of trying to sow part wrong the labour movement.

“He’s conscionable being a destructive element,” Mr. Owusu said, reiterating that the TUC remains committed to protecting the interests of each Ghanaian workers.

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