The General Workers' Union (GWU) is the national trade union center in Malta. The GWU was founded in 1943 and has been politically identified with the Labour Party as the trade union is the major left-wing trade union in Malta. The two were statutorily fused from 1978 to 1992, and continue to share many common objectives.

General Workers' Union

Founded	1943
Headquarters	Workers' Memorial Building, Valletta, Malta
Location	Malta
Members	53,019[1]
Key people	Victor Carachi, president Josef Bugeja, secretary general Kevin Camilleri, deputy Secretary General
Affiliations	ITUC, ETUC
Website	www.gwu.org.mt

The GWU is the largest trade union movement in Malta and organised in a confederation format of 8 Sections each to an extent autonomous in conducting industrial relations. It is one of the two trade union centers recognised by the European Trade Union Confederation and the employees representative delegation at the International Labour Organization. The sections cover the manufacturing, services and the public sector of the Maltese labour market and thus organise a wide cross section of interests.

The union is affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation and the European Trade Union Confederation as well as various sectoral international and European trade union federations covering the same sectors the GWU is organised therein.

The 8 Sections of the Union covering most sectors of the economy are:

• Government and Public Entities;
• Professionals Finance and Services;
• Chemical and Energy;
• Manufacturing;
• Hospitality and Foods;
• Maritime and Aviation;
• Metal and Construction,
• Technology Electronics and Communications.