What We Do?
WHAT WE DO?- NOUS SOMME QUI? – MITÄ TEEMME?
MLGWUI as an international humanitarian and labour migration organisation ensuring human and labour rights, decent work, social justice, protection, education and training, linguistic culture, occupational safety and health, gender equality, peace-security for Migrant Workers in Ghana, Africa and Diaspora in accordance with the United Nations Convention 1990 Migrant Workers and Members of their Families and other relevant Conventions, Protocols, Ghana National Migration Policies and Labour Acts, Laws including ILO, AU, ECOWAS and other Economic States and Ghana as a country in following principal global pillars:
Migration Policies and Labour Acts, Laws including ILO, AU, ECOWAS and other Economic States and Ghana as a country in following principal global pillars:
- Fundamental Principles And Rights Of Work
- Assisting Migrant Workers in their social, economic and labour education developmentthrough learning and business-coaching skills training
- Labour Migration Education
- Labour Migration Education
- Trade Union Education
- Promoting Interest of Migrant Workers’ Rights
- Migration Governance and Development Process
- Border Management and Security
- Human Labour Trafficking and Migration Menace and Awareness Creation
- Diaspora Engagement and Development in Country of Origin
- Forced Displacement and Support
- Internal and International Migration Sensitisation
- Legal Aid Assistance
- Migration and Trade Facilitation, Tripartism, Mediation and Social Dialogue
- Social Protection and Promoting Migrants’ Human and Labour/Working Rights
- Internal, Regional and International Legal Matters
- Migrant Rescue, Voluntary Returning Facilitating and Reintegration Support
- Integration and Reintegration Capacity Building Training for Migration Stakeholders,Security Services and Migrant Workers
- Employment and Income Opportunities for Women and Men
- Capacity Building and Business Coaching Training for Migrants
- Offer Services to Representatives of Workers’ Organisations,International Tertiary Students, Academia Researchers
- Among Others
MLGWUI currently affiliates to Trade Unions International (UIS), France; WFTU-FSM, Greece; TUI Pensioners & Retirees Spain. etc; whilst has fraternal relationship with trade union organisations and migratory organisations in Africa and Diaspora including Cuba, Finland, South Africa, Asia, Europe, among other countries as well as a Stakeholder of public institutions.
Any Migrant Workers, Returnee, Migrant Entrepreneur, Refugees and or a Potential Migrant who works in permanently, temporarily, casually or seasonally and whether the wage he or she earns is fixed, changing, monthly, daily or in any other method of calculating wages according to production, piece work or otherwise.
Membership of the Migrant Labour General Workers’ Union International (MLGWUI) consists of general Regular and Irregular situation (im)migrant workers in all sectors of work including domestic, industrial, commercial or enterprise based, an hourly paid worker, an intern Student or salaried staff, regardless of his or her colour, creed or nationality or political affiliation as as well as Itinerary Migrant Workers, Migrant Entrepreneurs, Interne Students and Pensioners-retirees organised by MLGWUI in Africa and Diaspora engaged or employed and/or intending to be employed in private and informal sectors are eligible for membership of the Union.
WHO IS A MIGRANT WORKER?
For the purposes of our present focus, a Migrant Worker termed as follows:
- The term “migrant worker” refers to a person who is to be engaged, is engaged or has been engaged in a remunerated activity in a State of which he or she is not a national;
- (a) The term “frontier worker” refers to a migrant worker who retains his or her habitual residence in a neighbouring State to which he or she normally returns every day or at least once a week;
- (b) The term “seasonal worker” refers to a migrant worker whose work by its character is dependent on seasonal conditions and is performed only during part of the year;
- (c) The term “seafarer“, which includes a fisherman, refers to a migrant worker employed on board a vessel registered in a State of which he or she is not a national;
- (d) The term “worker on an offshore installation” refers to a migrant worker employed on an offshore installation that is under the jurisdiction of a State of which he or she is not a national;
- (e) The term “itinerant worker” refers to a migrant worker who, having his or her habitual residence in one State, has to travel to another State or States for short periods, owing to the nature of his or her occupation;
- (f) The term “project-tied worker” refers to a migrant worker admitted to a State of employment for a defined period to work solely on a specific project being carried out in that State by his or her employer;
- (g) The term “specified-employment worker” refers to a migrant worker:
(i) Who has been sent by his or her employer for a restricted and defined period of time to a State of employment to undertake a specific assignment or duty; or
(ii) Who engages for a restricted and defined period of time in work that requires professional, commercial, technical or other highly specialized skill; or
(iii) Who, upon the request of his or her employer in the State of employment, engages for a restricted and defined period of time in work whose nature is transitory or brief; and who is required to depart from the State of employment either at the expiration of his or her authorized period of stay, or earlier if he or she no longer undertakes that specific assignment or duty or engages in that work;
- (h) The term “self-employed worker” refers to a migrant worker who is engaged in a remunerated activity otherwise than under a contract of employment and who earns his or her living through this activity normally working alone or together with members of his or her family, and to any other migrant worker recognized as self-employed by applicable legislation of the State of employment or bilateral or multilateral agreements.