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The Federation of Worker Cooperatives of the Argentinean Republic - FECOOTRA - has become a new CICOPA member
12 March 2009
FECOOTRA is a sectoral member of the Cooperative Confederation of the Argentinean Republic - COOPERAR, a member of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA). It presently affiliates 29 worker cooperatives employing 2500 workers and involved in various types of economic activities, such as paper, printing and graphics, ship repair, textiles, chemical industry, crystal, meat refrigeration, (...)
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MERCOSUR cooperative delegation to Brussels attends CECOP seminar and signs protocol with CICOPA
15 November 2008
The delegation was from RECM (Reunion Especializada de Cooperativas de Mercosur), the MERCOSUR official agency for cooperatives, which comprises the national administration of control and promotion of cooperatives and the national confederations of cooperatives in each MERCOSUR member state (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay). Being Chile an associate member of MERCOSUR, a delegate from the Chilean cooperative state (...)
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Mercosur Social Summit
15 December 2006
On December 14, 2006 the I Social Summit of MERCOSUR took place in Brasilia, where nearly 500 representatives of different social organizations from member and associated countries met in order to give a new impulse to the participation of civil society within the framework of MERCOSUR.
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Brazil: National Conference on Solidarity Economy
18 July 2006
From 26 to 29 June, a conference was held on solidarity economy which gathered about 1300 people, representatives of institutions from the whole country. Cootrabalho was represented by Fetrabalho-SP / Silvana Bonfim, its social relations director, invited by the Labour and Employment Ministry.
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Cooperatives and Decent Work in Mercosur
16 September 2005
The Specialized Meeting of Mercosur Cooperatives (RECM) issued a “Declaration on Cooperatives, Employment and Decent Work” on August 23, 2005, in the context of its X Plenary Session in the city of Montevideo. The declaration was presented taking into account the December 2004 Resolution of the Common Market Council of Mercosur, which called for hte creation of a High Level Group (GAN) to elaborate a regional strategy for the (...)
