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Kampala
The ATGWU Capacity Building workshop was held in Kampala, Uganda, from 13-17th July 2015. The workshop was organised and hosted by the Amalgamated Transport & General Workers’ Union, Uganda (ATGWU) and brought together 15 participants from Uganda, Kenya and… Continue Reading →
Click video above to watch interview with John Ssemujjo, President of KAMBA “The best way to start is to start now – we think only the union let’s us start now” – John Ssemujjo, KAMBA On July 15th 2015, the… Continue Reading →
On 10 June the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (ATGWU) in Uganda, which is the project mentor union for East Africa, succeeded in completing its elections to elect officials to represent some 30,000 members in informal workers’ associations. These… Continue Reading →
Synaida Khaenda of the Transport and Allied Workers Union (TAWU) in Kenya has kindly shared the report she wrote about the Africa Regional Women’s Workshop (held in Kampala, April 2014) with the blog. You can download the report below: Synaida… Continue Reading →
A huge thank you to everyone who participated in the Africa Regional Women’s Workshop. Bro Aziz Kiirya, Bro John Mark Mwanika and their comrades from ATGWU, the project mentor union in Uganda, deserve a particular mention for their role in… Continue Reading →
The Africa regional women’s workshop on mapping informal women workers in transport concluded on Friday last week after three highly successful days of discussion, training, experience-sharing, and practical mapping activities. Much of the work was based on the mapping… Continue Reading →
During last week’s ITF mapping workshop, leaders of the Amalgamated Transport & General Workers’ Union (ATGWU) and leaders of five associations of informal transport workers in Uganda held a press conference to announce that the informal associations had affiliated to… Continue Reading →
The Visibility of Women Workers strand of the project has got off with a flying start this week with the Africa Regional Women’s Workshop, being held in Kampala, Uganda. Teams of women activists from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are working… Continue Reading →
