The Public Utilities Workers' Union (PUWU) is a trade union representing utility workers in Ghana. The union's origins lie in the Gold Coast Public Utility and Allied Government Industrial Union, which represented junior staff in the Public Works Department, working in the water and electric sectors. In the early 1960s, it merged with the Government Clerical and Technical Employees Union, which renamed itself as the

Public Services Workers' Union The Public Services Workers' Union (PSWU) is a trade union representing public sector workers in Ghana. The union was founded on 22 June 1959, as the Government Clerical and Technical Employees' Union, with the merger of the Ghana Broadcasti ...

. However, in 1967, the public utility workers split away to form their own union, PUWU. The new union affiliated to the Ghana Trades Union Congress, and by 1985, it had 20,000 members, falling to 10,288 in 2018.{{cite web , title=Labour Market Profile 2020: Ghana , url=https://www.ulandssekretariatet.dk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Ghana_lmp_2020.pdf , website=Danish Trade Union Development Agency , access-date=8 July 2021 Most of its members work for the Ghana Water Company, the

Electricity Company of Ghana Power Distribution Services Ghana formerly ''Electricity Company of Ghana'' is an electricity distribution company in Ghana. The company's operation covers about thirty percent of the total land mass of the country. Formerly as a public company, i ...

, the State Housing Company, or the Community Water and Sanitation Agency.

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Public sector trade unions Trade unions established in 1967 Trade unions in Ghana