News and articles
October 2014
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Job preservation through the creation of worker cooperatives: Lessons for trade unions
08 October 2014
A new ILO publication presents a series of lessons learned by trade unions and cooperatives in their efforts to prevent the closing of enterprises through buyouts. It provides examples of success stories and documents the enabling conditions that led to success.
May 2014
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Rebuilding links: Trade unions and cooperatives get together again
22 May 2014
All over the world, trade unions and cooperatives are rediscovering each other and joining forces to save companies and jobs.
December 2012
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Call for Papers-Trade Unions and Cooperatives: Challenges and Perspectives (Deadline:2 February 2013)
19 December 2012
The papers would ideally show how trade unions have been using the cooperative model and working with the cooperative movement to achieve economic, social and political objectives. This call for papers is thus particularly interested in case-studies that can provide lessons for trade union practioners and co-operators internationally. Papers should be no more than 7,000 words, excluding tables and references. Proposals will be received until February 2, 2013.
December 2011
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From the depths of an African shantytown, a nascent youth employment movement grows
14 December 2011
In Africa’s second largest slum, youth unemployment is sky high. But cooperative projects are helping youth find work and slowly lift themselves out of poverty through such projects as raising food in community gardens, processing waste for bio-fuel or providing improved sanitation. Journalist Anne Holmes reports on how this emerging economic revival is making a small but significant dent in a major ongoing challenge.