The Trades Union Congress (TUC) of the Ghana is the main umbrella organization for trade union activites in Ghana:

• It is made up of seventeen affiliated national unions. These are autonomous bodies which pursuer their own activities but within the frame-work of their constitutions and their areas of legally accepted jurisdiction.
  
  
• The TUC is the official mouthpiece of unionized labour in its dealing with government and with the employers association.
  
  
• It is non-political. Its 1992 constitution debars all elected officials from identifying with any political party.