About The INFORUM Ghana
The Informal Economy Workers’ Forum of Ghana (INFORUM GHANA) The INFORUM Ghana was legally registered in 2020 as an Umbrella Trade Union Organization for Informal Economy Workers in Ghana with a mission of bringing together bigger, smaller, and splinter Associations in the Informal Economy under one Umbrella for a common purpose of protecting, sustaining and promoting their common interests through voice and representation, advocacy, lobbying, campaigns, and negotiations. The INFORUM has over Five Million Members across the country drawn from 72 Affiliates Associations of workers in both formal and Informal sectors.
Whereas it is necessary that those who labor have full freedom to associate and to belong to trade unions of their choice, to negotiate the terms and conditions of their employment, and be free from interference, restraint, or coercion from employers or their agents in line with the elaborate  provisions of the 1992 constitution of Ghana and the Labour Act 2003(Act 651) and,
Whereas the organization of workers into Trades Unions has been demonstrated to be and is essential to economic, social, and political freedom of society and to the successful functioning of democracy and the state, devoid of autocracy to the end that citizens shall live and work without discrimination or exploitation, and
Whereas workers especially in the informal economy have suffered the worse forms of abuses, discrimination, oppression, exploitation and violation in the hands of government and employers by reason of their inability to organize and to forge a united front, and in order to curb the perpetration of such acts of illegality against workers in the informal economy;
The Organizations, Unions, Associations and individuals operating in the Ghanaian informal and Gig economy deem it appropriate to form a united front to protect, sustain and promote the common interests of Workers in the Informal and Gig Economy of Ghana.
In 2019, a National Informal Economy Workers’ Forum was held in Accra to identify the challenges of the Informal Economy during which it was identified that the sector lacks a united front. This has become a barrier to its growth since Employers and Governments take undue advantage of the heterogeneous and complex nature of the sector to the detriment of operators in the sector.
Against this backdrop, the Informal Economy Workers’ Forum Ghana (INFORUM Ghana) was formed as an umbrella Organization for workers in the Informal Economy of Ghana.
LOCATION
LOCATION
Behind Goil filling Station, Tse Addo, Accra, Ghana
CONTACT:
+233542962682 +233207203040
Email:ghanainforum@yahoo.com
Facebook: INFORUM Ghana
Website: www.inforumghana.org
SLOGAN
INFORUM! United for Development!
SLOGAN
INFORUM! United for Development!
The Executive Secretary-Deborah Freeman(Mrs.)
MISSION
The mission of the INFORUM is to organize Informal Economy Workers in Ghana, bringing together Unions, Welfare Associations, cooperatives and occupational groups of workers in the Informal Economy under one umbrella to form a united family of workers for the purposes of championing their socioeconomic rights and interests.
VISION
The Vision of the INFORUM is to be a stronger force and a reference point for the formalization of the Informal Economy in Ghana, an inclusive labour Union through which Informal Economy Workers thrive.
The aims and objectives of the Organization shall be:
- To Organize Workers in the Informal Economy across all Regions of Ghana into One Strong Trade Union
- To promote the formalization of the informal economy
- To collect reliable data of informal economy workers to inform Trade Union and Government social interventions.
- To negotiate appropriate remuneration, hours of works and other conditions of service of its members.
- To protect, sustain and promote the common interests of Informal Economy Workers.
- To organize seminars, workshops, and such other programmes for the education of its members.
- To work to protect members from abuses, discrimination, undue suffering and to resist violations of their humans and economic rights.
- To instill in its members a sense of discipline and commitment to work to ensure high productively in all their areas of work.
- To affiliate or subscribe to any organization national or international having similar objectives to those of the Organization
- To do any other thing that the Organization may consider necessary in order to achieve these aims and objectives
STRUCTURES
The structures of the Organization shall be made up the following bodies.
- The Delegates Congress
- The General Council
- The Executive Committee
- Women’s Committee
- Youth Committee
The National Secretariat
MEMBERSHIP
The Organization is open to all membership-based Organizations and individuals operating in the Informal Economy.
The INFORUM Ghana has an estimated membership of Four Million, Nine Hundred and Twenty-One Thousand (4,921,000) workers in the informal economy drawn from 42 Organizations, cooperatives, Associations and Unions in the Informal Economy.
OUR LEADERSHIP, THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (EC)
Membership of the General Council consists of Chairmen, Secretaries and other representatives of affiliate Organizations.
