The Trade Union Congress of Tanzania (TUCTA) is the only registered Trade Union Federation in Tanzania, with Registration No. FED 01. It was established in April 2001 and Registered in May 2001 under then Trade Union Act of 1998 and later updated its registration under the Employment and Labour Relations Act 2004. TUCTA is a national umbrella organization of thirteen sectoral based trade unions with total membership of around 650,000 by June 2016, whose main function is to coordinate and liaise the trade union movement in the country. The organization is promoting the interests of workers through among many other ways including Promoting Social Dialogue and advocacy for Decent work in harmonizing labour relation at all levels. It also embraces the issue of building/strengthening organizational capacities in increasing and maintaining membership base.

TUCTA has 13 affiliates, namely:-

1. Tanzania Teachers Union (TTU)
2. Tanzania Union of Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (TUICO)
3. Researchers, Academicians and Allied Workers Union (RAAWU)
4. Tanzania Local Government Workers Union (TALGWU)
5. Tanzania Mines and Construction Workers Union (TAMICO)
6. Tanzania Plantations and Agricultural Workers Union (TPAWU)
7. Tanzania Railways Workers Union (TRAWU)
8. Tanzania Union of Government and Health Employees (TUGHE)
9. Tanzania Seamen’s Union (TASU)
10. Communication and Transport Workers’ Union of Tanzania (COTWUT)
11. Conservation, Hotels, Domestic and Allied Workers’ Union (CHODAWU)
12. Telephone Workers’ Union of Tanzania (TEWUTA)
13. Dock Workers’ Union of Tanzania (DOWUTA)

VISION 

To have a continuous community, where employees and employers collaborate in creating a stable, neat and sustainable jobs.

GOALS 

Fighting, protecting, defending workers' rights and promoting trade unions to be stable and united while exercising freedom and true democracy in Tanzania