Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung@ 40 in Ghana Chapter Eight Fraternity Messages Fraternity Message from the Ghana Trade Union Congress(GTUC) to the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on the Occasion of FES' 40 Anniversary in Ghana. by Brother Kofi Asamoah, Secretary General, Ghana Trade Union Congress The Ghana Trades Union Congress and its affiliate national unions as well as the gallant working women and men of Ghana wishes to congratulate the Resident Director and staff of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung on this auspicious occasion of your 40th anniversary. The TUC family is proud and deeply honoured to have been integral part of this forty-year journey you are commemorating today. Your organisation has been among the first international non-governmental organisations that established in the country soon after our independence. And you are also among the few that survived our turbulent political and economic experiences of the 1970s and 80s. This is a demonstration of your resolute commitment to Ghana's development. Your work over the past forty years in promoting peace, entrenching democratic culture in the country, strengthening civil society, developing independent media and protecting human rights of Ghanaians is without comparison. Through close collaboration with many civil society organisations and the labour movement, the FES remains a strategic partner in fostering sustainable socio­economic development, and the promotion of equality, fairness, social and economic justice in Ghana. For us in Ghana TUC and indeed the entire trade union movement in Ghana, we recognise your invaluable contributions towards the promotion and defence of trade union rights in the country. Our cooperation with you covers building the capacity of trade unions through cutting-edge research on labour issues. Through this collaboration, we are please to inform, the Resident Director and your heroic staff that the trade union movement in Ghana is making important strides in participating in policymaking at the highest level in the country. 59