Besides activities in wage bargaining and job security, the TUC is also involved in the following:
- Instituting worker education programmes.
- Running a secretarial school at Cape Coast and a vocational institute in Takoradi. In addition, the Labour College in Accra runs refresher courses to enhance the outlook of workers.
- Organising primary health care projects in the North which take care of basic health needs.
- Running a base clinic in Accra and mobile clinics around the country.
- Developing housing projects to alleviate the problem of housing for workers.
- Organising general educational activities to support government and management education programmes. (The Management Development and Productivity Institution (MDPI) was a TUC project started in 1963 and handed over to government in 1964.)
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