STUDY LABOUR AND SOCIAL JUSTICE THE INTEREST OF INFORMAL LABOUR IN TRADE UNIONS Findings from Representative Country Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa Should trade unions in Sub-­Saharan Africa organize the informally employed? The or­ganizational debate is on, but empirical research on views and expectations of those who are targeted and operate under informal employment conditions is largely missing. Do the informally employed want to be organized by trade unions? What kind of support do they expect? Do they want to leave their own groups when joining trade unions or do they prefer affiliation as a collective to individual membership? Rudolf Traub-Merz December 2020 The report presents the find­ings of country-wide repre­sentative opinion polls of the informally employed and their views on trade unions. The polls were jointly conducted ­by FES(lead agent), ILO and DIE­GDI and cover Kenya(2018), Benin(2018), Senegal(2019) and Zambia(2019).