Our Aims and Objectives as ITUC-Africa are :

• Strives for full productive and decent employment, elimination of discrimination based on race, sex, nationality or creed
• Fights for improvement of working and living conditions, introduction, maintenance and extension of social security for all and raising workers living standards.
• Maintains and develops strong, independent, democratic, powerful and effective international, national, sub-regional, regional, continental organizations of free trade unions.
• Seeks the universal recognition and application of trade union rights.
• Furthers the establishment, maintenance and development of trade union organizations.
• Strengthens international trade union solidarity giving assistance to oppression, repression victims and other sufferers due to natural and industrial disasters
• Coordinates defence of free trade unions against any campaign destroying rights through infiltration and subjugation of labour organizations by totalitarian or other anti labour forces.
• Assists war and subjugation victims through speedy rebuilding of economies.
• Develops resources of countries to promote economic, social and cultural progress.
• Protects, maintains and expands free labour and eliminates forced labour.