The Italian Italtac company is a cooperative recently created and specialized in the production of self-adhesive material. It has a high level of technical expertise thanks to its highly qualified workforce.
Around 125 worker cooperatives have been affected by the magnitude 5.1 earthquake, which occurred Wednesday 11th May with the epicenter in the town of Lorca (Spain). According to the president of the Worker Cooperatives Union o...
In 2010, the whole cooperative movement mobilised at the occasion of the first 'Co-operatives Fortnight'. The campaign got 2.3 million people involved, around 70,000 were active online and the media coverage reached ove...
The European Parliament has adopted an own-initiative report by Judith A. Merkies (S&D, NL) on May 12th in response to the European Commission Communication setting out the main initiatives needed to create “Europe 20...
The European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, Michel Barnier, has presented on 13th of April the “Single Market Act”, a text regrouping twelve priorities designed to boost growth and reinforce citizens...
The jobs consolidation in the "Sociedades Laborales" (SAL) in Spain has been made reality thanks to the fact it is a worker-owned enterprise. {"If four people join together to create a company and own it, then th...
The Spanish audiovisual production cooperative m30m made a documentary about cooperatives around the world and are currently in the editing process of the first episode recorded in Chile. They are also working on the developmen...
The Czech Minister of Social Affairs, Jaromír Drábek, raised the profile of the opening of the CECOP-CICOPA Europe Board meeting in Prague by attending the event, which took place on 29th March in the SCMVD office...
“Cooperative Enterprises build a better world” will be the slogan of the 2012 United Nations International Year of Cooperatives. It highlights the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development, in parti...
JWCU, the Japanese organisation for worker’s cooperatives, is reporting severe damages among its members. Some workers’ relatives are still missing. Many people have no gas, water or electricity even if the situatio...
For the first time in its history, the General Confederation of Scop (CG Scop) has launched a big campaign across the whole country. Its goal: to educate the working world that “Scops” (production cooperatives) are...
The Japan Workers’ Cooperative Union (JWCU) reported that an earthquake, which reached a magnitude of 9.0, hit the country on 11th March and caused a vast amount of damage to their member worker cooperatives, including se...
The transformation of companies into cooperatives is an option which is not always taken into account as part of corporate restructuring in crisis or in businesses without heirs. The global economic crisis has demonstrated the...
Co-operative Press has recently launched Dash.coop, a website that displays news and blog feeds from cooperatives across the world. It also provides an interactive dashboard for cooperators and anyone interested in the sector t...
The number of workers cooperatives increased by 7% last year compared to the same period in 2009, according to the Spanish worker’s cooperatives association, COCETA. At the same time, the confederation announced that it h...
CICOPA's cooperative development strategy applied to worker, social and artisans’ cooperatives. The document “Cooperative development strategy” was approved in 2009 by the CICOPA General Assembly. CICOPA i...
In the context of the “2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion”, the European Commission released a series of video clips highlighting facts and figures relating to poverty as well as good prac...
Eighteen young trainees and students from several cooperative enterprises were invited by Kooperationen to participate in a workshop in Elsinore, Denmark. The aim of this workshop was to give young people a chance to share thei...
