Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Paul Hazen, the Executive Director of the U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council

17 January 2022

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with cooperative and wider social and solidarity economy (SSE) policy makers, researchers and practitioners from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work. On this occasion, the ILO interviewed Paul Hazen, the Executive Director of the U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council.

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ILO COOP Chiefs across time

03 November 2020

This page provides bibliographies of the chiefs and heads of the ILO's Cooperatives Unit since its establishment in 1920.

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ILO COOP provides a special message for the Coop Impact 2020 Conference

08 October 2020

ILO COOP 100 Interview

ILO COOP 100 Interview with Martin Lowery, cooperative leader in the US and ICA Board Member

06 August 2020

Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). The interviews reflect on their experience and contributions in the past and shares their thoughts on the future of cooperatives and the SSE in a changing world of work.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Brightly® – Scaling up worker cooperatives through the franchise model

19 December 2019

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). On this occasion, the ILO interviewed Ms. Maru Bautista, Director of the Cooperative Development Programme at the Center for Family Life, on Brightly®, the first worker cooperative franchise in the United States.

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ILO contributes to the deliberation on the alliance between unions and cooperatives in the US

30 October 2019

ILO Cooperatives Unit Manager provided a video message as a keynote to the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy in the US on how trade unions and cooperatives can work together to promote decent work for all.

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ILO presents international trends on worker cooperative development at the 2019 Co-op IMPACT Conference in Washington

30 October 2019

An ILO official participated in a panel on the scalability of the worker cooperative model and presented international trends and good practices on worker cooperative development.

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UNTFSSE participates in the UNGA side event organized by Pact for Impact

27 September 2019

ILO’s Enterprises Department Director and Chair of the UN Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE), Mr van Vuuren, participated as a speaker in a side meeting at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) organized by the Pact for Impact in New York City on 24 September, 2019.

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ILO shares its message for a parallel event at the 63rd CSW on empowering women in waste management

19 March 2019

ILO has sent a video message for a parallel event to the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on cooperative ways to empower informal women workers in waste management chains.

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ILO participates in an observance of the International Day of Cooperatives at the United Nations, New York

09 July 2018

The Director ILO Office for the UN Director presented the relevance of cooperatives in promoting decent work and sustainable development at an observance of the 2018 International Day of Cooperatives held at UN Headquarters in New York.