The Union of Industry, Commerce and Finance (UNICOF) 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 various sectors, in Ghana. The union was founded in August 2003, as a split from the

Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) was a trade union and mass-based popular political movement in southern Africa. It was influenced by the syndicalist politics of the Industrial Workers of the World (adopting the IWW Preamble ...

(ICU). 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 ...

(TUC) accepted the new union as an affiliate, which led UNICOF to resign from the TUC. On formation, the union had 4,000 members, and by 2011 this had grown to 12,000. The union was initially led by General Secretary John Esiape, but he was suspended from office in 2016. Since then, it has been led by Chief Executive Officer John Senanu Amegashie.

External links

*{{official website, https://unicofgh.org/

References

General unions Trade unions in Ghana Trade unions established in 2003