Author: cicopa

The Grain Exchange Worker-owned Co-op in Calgary (Canada) has used a crowdfunding campaign to help launch the first worker-owned bakery

23 Jun 2015 In 2014, 2,800 jobs were created, including 1,940 in new worker cooperatives in France, according to the

09 Jul 2015 Between 2007 and 2013, the survival rate of Italian enterprises was 48.30% (after 3 years from their

Spain’s worker cooperatives, numbering in excess of 17,000, have seen a ten percentage point lesser drop in employment compared to

13 Jul 2015 After a recent law on social enterprises (2011), under which 26 social cooperatives are already registered (and

19 Jun 2015 Federsolidarietà – Confcooperative, the largest Italian Federation of ‪‎social cooperatives‬ is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the

16 Jul 2015 Worker and social cooperatives provide youth and women a more equal access to employment and management positions.

Human care needs are expanding and becoming ever more complex. Today, care work is found in various forms from child

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has adopted a new international labour standard that is expected to help hundreds of millions

The document “Cooperatives are key to the transition from the informal to the formal economy” by CICOPA argues that the

Cooperatives are widely included in the Conclusions of the ILO Committee on SMEs and Employment Creation. They are mentioned in

The first global biannual report on industrial and service cooperatives (2013-2014) is out. Published by CICOPA provides a picture of

The world celebrated the International Day of Cooperatives on 4th July 2015. It should be known that creating a strong

When living under the guidance of a model that defines the rules of human interaction from the angle of the

The worker cooperative Creando Conciencia (Creating Awareness) was born in the year 2005 in Argentina, upon the initiative of a

04 Jul 2015 According to the latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report, income inequality has reached record

Reader’s note: This is an archive with working links of the Work Together Edition sent in 2015. If you wish

Inchang Song President of the Korean worker cooperative federation and Minsun Ji cooperative activist and PhD student at the university

Since 1930, cooperatives across the United States have celebrated the cooperative month in October. This year 20,000 cooperatives will convene