Our Aims and Objectives as ITUC-Africa are :

• Strives for full productive and decent employment, elimination of discrimination based on race, sex, nationality or creed
• Fights for improvement of working and living conditions, introduction, maintenance and extension of social security for all and raising workers living standards.
• Maintains and develops strong, independent, democratic, powerful and effective international, national, sub-regional, regional, continental organizations of free trade unions.
• Seeks the universal recognition and application of trade union rights.
• Furthers the establishment, maintenance and development of trade union organizations.
• Strengthens international trade union solidarity giving assistance to oppression, repression victims and other sufferers due to natural and industrial disasters
• Coordinates defence of free trade unions against any campaign destroying rights through infiltration and subjugation of labour organizations by totalitarian or other anti labour forces.
• Assists war and subjugation victims through speedy rebuilding of economies.
• Develops resources of countries to promote economic, social and cultural progress.
• Protects, maintains and expands free labour and eliminates forced labour.

Vision of ITUC-Africa
Creating a better world for workers in Africa and beyond.

Mission of ITUC-Africa
To represent workers in Africa through unity, advocacy, and capacity development to achieve decent work and equality for social justice,

The African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa) acknowledges the accomplishment of generations of working women and men who through their trade union struggle have fought for the cause of social justice, political emancipation from colonial rule and apartheid, democracy and peace in Africa. It pledges to carry forward their struggle for a world in which the dignity and rights of all human beings is assured, and each is able to pursue their well-being and to realise their potential in conditions of freedom and equality.

The ITUC-Africa recognises the urgent need to transform social, economic and political structures and relations, which stand as obstacles to that vision. It assumes the task of combating poverty, hunger, exploitation, oppression, and inequality through regional and international solidarity actions for the attainment of just and equitable patterns of trade and wealth sharing required by the conditions of the globalised economy, and for its democratic governance in the interests of labour, which its holds superior to those of capital. As such, the ITUC-Africa shall function in a robust manner as a countervailing force in the global economy, committed to eradicating the imbalances in the global trade order and the unfair neo-liberal trade policies, especially the heavy agricultural subsidies and the various impediment to market access for agricultural products. It shall strive to secure a fair terms of trade, equitable distribution of wealth and income within and between countries, protection of the environment, universal access to public goods and services, comprehensive social protection, life-long learning and decent work opportunities for all. It shall further commit itself to securing comprehensive and equitable economic and social development for workers throughout the African region and beyond, in particular where poverty and exploitation are pervasive.

The ITUC-Africa shall promote trade union unity among democratic and independent trade unions in Africa and shall ensure effective representation to working people, wherever they work and in whatever conditions throughout the African region. Its rules shall guarantee internal democracy, full participation of member organisation, and that the composition of its governing bodies and representation respects its diversity.

The ITUC-Africa, convinced of the universal, inalienable, and indivisible nature of human rights, affirms that freedom of thought, expression, assembly, and association must be translated into actual conditions affecting the lives of workers and their relations with employers, public or private, and with the State. It proclaims the right of all men and women, therefore to:
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Freedom of association and assembly;
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Mutual protection of their interests, through forming and joining, in full freedom, trade unions, which shall be free bargaining instruments and, which derive their legitimacy from their members;
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Freely chosen, justly remunerated, decent, secure and productive employment;
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Social and economic justice;
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Freedom from hunger and poverty;
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Democratic government, including the full and free participation of all people in political life and the possibility to change government by democratic means;
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Freedom from all forms discrimination, oppression and exploitation, and to equality of opportunity;
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Freedom from all forms of political interference and injustices;
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Equitable and sustainable development;
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Access to the public services necessary to lead a full and decent life;
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A safe, healthy and sustainable working environment; and,
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Social security for all.

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