Trade unions in Guinea

The unions traditionally have a strong position in Guinea and the country's history is closely linked by the late French colonial period to the present day with the activities of trade unions. Even though only about 50,000 people are mainly organized in the public and formal sector of the economy today in Guinea -union represented the two most important unions in the country but 75 % of the labor in the formal sector employees and have especially in the public service a very high level of organization.

Four national trade union confederations are relevant today:

CNTG: Confédération Nationale des Travailleurs de Guinée ( Confederation of Workers of Guinea )
USTG: Union Syndicaliste of Travailleurs Guinéens ( Trade Union Confederation of Guinean Workers )
ONSLG: Organisation Nationale des Syndicats Libres de Guinée ( National Organization of Free Unions of Guinea)
UDTG: Union Démocratique de Guinée the Travailleurs (Democratic Union of Workers of Guinea)

The first three of these organizations are affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation ITUC, the UDTG aimed at this.

In the political struggles for the democratization of Guinea in recent years, the umbrella organizations appeared together and signed, for example, in the strikes, which were standing at the beginning of the democratization Guinea 2006/2007, agreements together with "Inter Centrale CNTG - USTG - élargie à l' ONSLG et à l' UDTG " ( released: Common umbrella organization CNTG - USTG - extended to ONSLG and UDTG ).

History of the Guinean unions

The early days of the Guinean unions during the French colonial rule is closely connected with the person Sékou Touré, later longtime president of Guinea. In the early 1940s he organized the first strike in French West Africa (to which Guinea was one ) at all, and founded in 1945 the first union in the country ( for post and Telekomunikationsarbeiter ) as a subdivision of the communist trade union Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT ) of the French " mother country ". On his initiative the foundation of the first union umbrella organization of French Guinea, the Territorial Union of Syndicates de Guinée, UTSG, 1946 went back.

Unions off in the 50s in the debate about the independence movement in Guinea and led by Sekou Touré's successful 1953 organized a strike with anti- colonial thrust by.

With the country's independence in 1956 the union leader Sekou Touré became president of the country and the Guinean section of the French CGT Confédération Nationale des named in Travailleurs de Guinée ( CNTG, Confederation of Workers of Guinea ) to, today the most powerful trade union federation in the country.

Unions rang 2007, the end of the dictatorial regime of President Lansana Conté a. In February 2007, four major trade union confederations called for a general strike largely followed, the rose within a few days to a popular uprising and Conté forced to meet different demands of the democracy movement. A key role was played by Rabiatou Serah Diallo, Secretary General of the aforementioned CNTG.

On January 19, 2010, with Jean -Marie Doré, spokesman for the opposition Alliance Forces Vives of trade unions and political parties, as Prime Minister, and Rabiatou Serah Diallo, Secretary General of the CNTG as Deputy Prime Minister, determined two well-known representatives of civil society Guinea for the highest offices of state.

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