The Communications Workers' Union is a

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

representing workers in the postal and telecommunication sectors in Ghana. The union was founded in about 1958, as the Union of Postal and Telecommunications Workers of Ghana, with the merger of the Ghana Post Office African Employees' Union and the Post Office Engineering Union. It affiliated to the

Ghana Trades Union Congress The Ghana Trades Union Congress is a national centre that unites various workers' organizations in Ghana. The organization was established in 1945. History The GTUC as a central co-ordinating body for 14 union groups in 1945. The unions were r ...

, and also to the

Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International The Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International (PTTI) was a global union federation bringing together unions of communications workers worldwide. History While a meeting of unions of communication workers was held in Paris in 1911, no lasting ...

. The union's membership peaked at 16,000 in 1972. By 1985, the union had 7,000 members, and this fell to 6,026 in 1998. In 1991, it renamed itself as the "Communication Workers' Union".{{cite book , last1=Panford , first1=Martin Kwamina , title=African Labor Relations and Workers' Rights , date=1994 , publisher=Greenwood Press , isbn=9780313290664 , page=205 The union has been hit by the sale of

Ghana Telecom Vodafone Ghana, formerly Ghana Telecom, is the national telecommunications company of Ghana. As of January 2020, it had around 9.3 million mobile voice subscribers, representing 13.81% of the Ghanaian market shares. The Ghana Satellite Earth St ...

, and the decline in demand for the services of

Ghana Post Ghana Post (also known as ''Ghana Post Company Limited'') is a government-owned corporation responsible for postal service in Ghana and a member of the West African Postal Conference. The current Managing Director is Bice Osei Kuffour, popularly ...

. By 2012, its membership had fallen to 2,881.

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Communications trade unions Trade unions established in 1958 Trade unions in Ghana