Ghana in Search of Regional Integration Agenda 140 Introduction A major feature of the last three decades in particular is the tendency towards regional economic integration. This process is taking place at different levels and to different degrees, in all parts of the world. In Africa, even though there have been efforts towards regional integration since independence, the last two decades have seen renewed efforts that have been largely spurred on by globalisation, that is, the process of growing economic integration at the global level, with its attendant political, social and cultural manifestations. Hailed for the massive increases in global production and wealth creation, globalisation has aroused intense debates for various reasons including the huge chasm between the rich industrialised countries and the developing countries, as well as the growing inequalities within nations. The combined effect of the growing wealth under globalisation along side the yawning poverty and the information communication technology that the globalisation thrives on, are reasons why increasingly more sections of civil society are participating in processes that affect them. Workers and their organisations have in particular found themselves challenged to engage in broader development issues because of their role in wealth creation and the growing recognition of rights of people. Regional integration in Africa and West Africa is among issues of concern to civil society and the trade unions in particular. This paper seeks to highlight the role of organised labour in furthering Ghana's regional integration agenda. It examines the concept of regional integration with examples from the African context; discusses organised labour at the national and beyond; follows up with a discussion of regional integration in Africa and then Ghana's Integration agenda; it examines the positions and roles of organised labour in furthering Ghana's regional integration agenda; assesses strategies being employed(including collaborations with others, the nature of the collaborations, how successful these collaborations have been, the challenges entailed in these collaborations). It discusses the overall challenges organised labour is facing in promoting regional integration agenda and makes recommendations on how to address these challenges. This study has been the result of analyses of secondary data, including official documents from Government and regional institutions, trade union organisations at the National and Regional levels as well as primary data obtained through key informants interview and participant observation. The Concept and Practice of Regional Integration At the most general level, integration is a unification of a number of hitherto independent units into a larger whole. This process may happen to various degrees.