As a result of the work of the Commission, certain issues were born.  They include:

• Rationalisation of the hundreds of industrial unions in the country into forty-two (42) industrial unions
• Separation of senior staff associations from the industrial unions
• Creation of four professional associations and nine employer associations.

The Commission also recommended a single labour centre for the 42 industrial unions and none for the senior staff associations.  The senior staff associations were therefore left completely unprotected.  The need thus arose for a clearing centre for the senior staff associations, whereupon a meeting of the concerned unions and leaders was held on 18^th April, 1980 at the then 53 Funsho Williams Avenue, Surulere, Lagos secretariat of Shops and Distributive Trade Senior Staff Association (SHOPDIS).  The meeting endorsed a motion by the then Vice President of SHOPDIS, Comrade M. B. Ladenegan, to establish FESSAN.  In actualising this, the input of the following unions must be acknowledged.

• Construction and Civil Engineering Senior Staff Association (CCESSA)
• Precision, Electricity and Related Equipment Senior Staff Association (PERESSA)
• Chemical and Non-Metallic Products Senior Staff Association (CANMPSSA)
• Senior Staff Association of Utilities, Statutory Corporations and Government-Owned Companies (SSAUSCGOC).

We must also put on record the efforts of individuals like Comrades Femi Kila, Abraham Oga, G. Arogundade, F. Ifelaja, etc.

History was further made in 1985 at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos when the nucleus of what came to be called TUC was inaugurated at the 1st National Delegates Conference of FESSAN on the 2^nd day of May of that year. On the 24^th of April, 1986, the NEC of FESSAN passed a resolution renaming the organisation as SESCAN, and SESCAN was registered in 1986 under the Land Perpetual Succession Act of (Cap 98 of 1968). This was the position until 2005 when TUC was recognised by the Federal Government.

This journey of more than a quarter of a century was not without resistance from the Government and the existing privileged labour centre,  yet the people’s will to take their destiny into their own hands and to protect their right to self determination prevailed.  Indeed it is on record that TUC is the only labour centre that fulfilled all righteousness in becoming the people’s labour centre because it is a product of the people’s will rather than government fiat.