The recent multiplication of grounded research on transport policies and practices in Africa has helped to understand the multifaceted nature of mobility systems in Africa. However, regulations, negotiations and conflicts within what is referred to as the paratransit sector like in international large-scale projects remains poorly addressed. On the one hand, power dynamics and political bargaining around Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) as recent public transport reform have not been adequately scrutinized. We still know very little about the bargaining power of different government officials, state departments, international consultant groups and unions, and how local actors reinterpret the BRT sometimes in highlighting irreconcilable understanding of city making. On the other hand, the better understanding of everyday rules taking place in the various garages illuminates the high level of institutional inventiveness and bricolage of administrative practices. This helps to explore what a transport union really is and how it operates rather than what it is supposed to do, a central concern for moving beyond ideological or theoretical assumptions that might be found in a number of labor and union studies in Africa or elsewhere. Digging into the role of associations or unions in regulating the paratransit transport allows actors to disentangle the contradicting interests within transport associations between bus owners and informal workers or between state officials and the minibus sector. This workshop would like to explore in particular the unwritten rules and the bargaining power of networks of actors within places of transport or around large-scale projects and between paratransit organizations and the state. More details here.