Confcooperative, one of the large Italian cooperative federations offered to assist UK cooperators to set up social cooperatives to deliver training, support and re-integration ...
At the CECOP meeting of European worker coop federations in Brussels today we asked for assistance to respond to the Cabinet Office policy announced today to promote worker coops ...
UK cabinet office today released their Big Society plan and state:
"section 4. Support co-ops, mutuals, charities and social enterprises
We will support the creation and expansion ...
Statistical assessment and surveys show that worker coops have been more resilient than conventional enterprises in withstanding the economic crisis.Social services did better ...
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Suddenly we find ourselves with a government intent on externalising NHS services into worker cooperatives. I share other worker coop people's unease at the thought of ...
The recent launch of The Co-operative Group’s membership website www.co-operative.coop/membership and the online community social network ‘Hive’ opens up ...
At the end of the Second World War, most Americans did their grocery shopping at an independently owned grocery store. However, tremendous shifts took place in food retailing in ...
The benefits of a £5 million UK-wide investment in the co-operative sector are being felt across the UK as the nationwide roll-out of The Co-operative Enterprise Hub gathers pace.
It's that time of the year again, yes your chance (if your a member of Co-operatives UK that is) to vote for your representatives to the Worker Co-operative Council. This ...
see http://www.social-europe.eu/2010/04/taming-the-tiger-the-challenge-for-european-social-democracy/.
A recent article by me in Social Europe Journal.
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