Author: CESTRAR Rwanda Workers' (CESTRAR Rwanda Workers')

        A Trade Union General Council was held on 4th Feb 2022 and among many other items on the agenda, the inauguration of CESTRAR new headquarters located at KG 2 Av 22 in Kimihurura, Gasabo, City of Kigali

On 21st March 2018, in Kigali, a critical moment in Africa’s regional economic integration agenda was reached when forty-four (44) African countries signed the African Continental Free Trade Agreement alias the AfCFTA.  As  a  flagship  program,  the  AfCFTA  responds to  the  AU  Agenda  2063 aspirations 1, 6 and 7, which aim to ‘attain a prosperous...

Trainers’ Training (Methodology) / Training Materials Development Course The CESTRAR/DTDA Trainers’ Training (Methodology) / Training Materials Development Course takes point of departure from the understanding that training is a strategic tool for change. Trainers are an important resource base for trade unions in relation to educate trade unionists and members, while at the same time...

Good negotiations contribute significant success, as they help build better relationships, deliver lasting quality solutions between workers and employers and help to avoid future problems and conflicts — rather than poor short-term solutions that do not satisfy the needs of both parties. It is in that regard that CESTRAR constantly trains its trainers/negotiation committees in...

The informal economy is the diversified set of economic activities, enterprises, jobs, and workers that are not regulated or protected. The concept originally applied to self-employment in small unregistered enterprises. It has been expanded to include wage employment in unprotected jobs. Although the informal sector makes up a significant portion of the economies in developing...

  IJAMBO RYA CESTRAR RIJYANYE N’UMUNSI MPUZAMAHANGA W’UMURIMO / 2021   Bakoresha, Bakozi bagenzi    banjye,bafatanyabikorwa mwese, tubanjekubifuriza Umunsi Mukuru mwiza w’Umurimo wizihizwa  kw’isi hose buri tariki ya 01 Gicurasi ya buri mwaka, aho Leta, Abakoresha n’Abakozi bahura bagasuzumira hamwe intambwe imaze guterwa mu rwego rwo guteza imbere umurimo n’uburenganzira bw’abakozi, bakareba ibibazo byagaragaye mu bihe...

Based on the ongoing restructuring and rationalizing process for the public institutions, and following a lot of concerns expressed by the public sector workers, arguing us to follow the placement process very closely, CESTRAR in collaboration with MIFOTRA, is pleased to share some critical points that require particular attention.

CESTRAR, Confederation of Trade Unions in Rwanda, with an affiliation of 17 workers’ unions, and a membership currently 185,700 from different sectors of work, represents workers in Rwanda at all levels. CESTRAR promotes workers’ rights, and defends their professional and socioeconomic wellbeing. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 globally and in Rwanda, CESTRAR has issued, among...

During our usual awareness campaigns on worker’s right we Visited 99 workers representing units, departments, plantations, in SORWATHE Factory