NUTGTWN in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) successfully organised a 2-day Policy Development Workshop on organizing in the informal economy with emphasis on the self-employed tailors and small scale garment makers. The activity took place at the Academy Guest House and Events Halls, Ikeja Lagos from Monday 19^th to Tuesday 20^th April, 2021. It was part of the union’s effort to re-look at its organizing strategies and explore new ways of building union strength among workers particularly in the informal economy. The union has enormous potentials for hundreds of thousands of members in small scale garment producers and other self-employed tailors nationwide. Since 2005, it has recorded remarkable achievements in organizing the informal workers. However, this is not without some challenges.

To deal with the identified challenges informed the urgent need for new measures/ policies to make the union more attractive to the new breed of self-employed tailors in Nigeria which must begin with developing a comprehensive policy that would serve as a guide for union’s organizing, representation and services to members in the informal economy. The overall objective is to increase trade union membership in the informal economy.

Following the successful development of the policy, 2-day workshop held in Kaduna for the validation of the drafted policy. The  event took place at the Chimcheerry Hotel, Kaduna, Kaduna State with participants drawn from the leadership of the union and representatives of the self-employed tailors and garment makers.

The Central Working Committee of the Union has since approved the validated policy which gives members in the informal sector more sense of belonging in the affairs of the union. The union expresses its appreciation to ILO for the support to its organizing effort in the informal economy.