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ILO’s participation in the 1st Asia-Pacific Cooperative Development Conference

28 February 2018

Three officials from the ILO offices in Colombo and Jerusalem participated in the 1st Asia-Pacific Co-operative Development Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka to share ILO’s cooperative development initiatives in the world of work.

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ILO COOP eNewsUpdate No.2, February 2018

28 February 2018

This latest issue of the ILO COOP Newsletter highlights a number of recent events and developments on cooperatives and other SSE enterprises.

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A Zimbabwean trade union takes a first step towards establishing a worker cooperative for its unemployed members

26 February 2018

Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers Union (ZIBAWU) has taken the first steps towards the establishment of a worker cooperative which will provide employment opportunities for its members who lost their jobs in 2015.

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Domestic workers in Trinidad and Tobago moving toward enhancing sustainability of their cooperative

21 February 2018

The ILO partnered with the Service Workers Centre Cooperative Society (SWCC) in Trinidad and Tobago to organize a workshop to discuss concrete steps toward enhancing the sustainability of the cooperative.

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Turkey’s first women cooperative consist of both Syrian and host community women is established

21 February 2018

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ILO's presentation at the Unicoop Florence Annual Convention focuses on the role of social and solidarity economy in the future of work

12 February 2018

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ILO presented at a public hearing in the European Parliament on the role of the social economy in shaping the future of work

12 February 2018

“The SSE presents itself as a viable solution to recent crises”, said Vic Van Vuuren, Director of the ILO Enterprises Department, at a public hearing on the role of the social economy in shaping the future of work organized at the European Parliament.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Interview with Trebor Scholz – connecting cooperatives to the future of work, digitally

09 February 2018

"Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue, ILO interviewed Professor Trebor Scholz from The New School, a scholar and an activist who developed the concept of “platform cooperativism”.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Employment provision is among the biggest contributions of cooperatives to the sustainable development agenda

31 January 2018

"Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue, Bruno Roelants, the newly elected Director-General of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), spoke to ILO COOP about his new position, the relevance of decent work to the global cooperative movement, and the role of cooperatives for the future of work.

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ILO COOP eNewsUpdate No.1, January 2018

31 January 2018

This latest issue of the ILO COOP Newsletter highlights a number of recent events and developments on cooperatives and other SSE enterprises.