Welcoming Note from the General Secretary

We are delighted that you have decided to be a Member of Tanzania Union of Industrial and Commercial Workers (TUICO). This website describes the range of our different activities, functions and events.

TUICO is a unique Trade Union in Tanzania. As Trade Unions have always been forced by circumstantial events to shape themselves to suit the socio-economic developments prevailing at particular time, the wind of change that shook the country in the 1990’s also effected the trade union movement.
In year 2000, eleven (11) free Trade Unions were formed, and they are all affiliated to the national center that is Trade Union Congress of Tanzania (TUCTA). Tanzania Union of Industrial and Commercial Workers (TUICO) being one of them. TUICO as a new democratic workers union operates in new environment dominated by the free market economy. The union organizes members from Industries, Commercial, Financial Institutions, Services and Consultancy