Ten Trade Union Actions - Inclusive Cities

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| Chapter 2 | THE PRACTICE |1 IntroductionIn this practical part we are going into thelegal status of informal economy workersin three participating countries: Ghana,Colombia and Sri Lanka. This informationis going to be supplemented andcorrected in the course of the programme.The data below largely come from theparticipants in the programme. Duringthe Informal Economy seminars questionnaires(see Annex 3) were used tomap out the situation of the informaleconomy workers. A set of country studiesare available on the website of theILO. 142 GhanaGhana has a large and growing workingpopulation and a relatively low officialrate of unemployment. The formal sectoraccounts for roughly a mere 14% of thetotal employment. The informal economyis by far the most important source ofemployment.Nearly 90% of all workingGhanaians earn a living in this sector 15 .According to the statistics there are fourtimes more wage earning men thanwomen. On the other hand, twice as manywomen as men work self-employed or asunpaid domestic staff. In urban areas oneout of three runs a ‘business’. No lessthan 49% of the women in the cities workin ‘business’. 16In a report of 2003 on trade unions inGhana, the Danish Trade Union Councilfor International Development Cooperation(DTUC) states that incomes inagriculture, mining & quarries and inproduction sectors are particularly low.These three sectors employ about 65% ofthe total working population and contributevery much to the export earnings.A wage increase in one of these sectorswould mean a considerable improvementfor a large part of the Ghanaian workers. 17Workers in the formal sector earn onaverage four times more than informaleconomy workers. According to a nationallabour market assessment, carried outin 2000, there are even huge differenceswithin these formal and informal sectors.14. See: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/ifpdial/ll/er_back.htm15. Danish Trade Union Council for International Development Cooperation (LO/FTF Council), Profile of the Labour Marketand Trade Unions in Ghana, Copenhagen 2003, p. 8 and 32. http://www.lo-ftf-council.dk16. DTUC 2003, p 33 and p 34.17. DTUC 2003, p 38.32
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