US co-ops welcome new Emergency Economic Workforce Resiliency Act

The bill allocates funding to assist firms in transitioning to employee ownership or worker co-operative models

Fairtrade Cocoa Farmers in Côte d’Ivoire have increased their income by 85% in four years

Fairtrade compiled the research by conducting interviews with farmers and surveying co-operatives

How co-ops can tackle child labour in agriculture

Around 160 million children are engaged in child labour globally

Fonterra’s Stirling plant in New Zealand to go coal-free

The plant will replace coal with wood biomass

How school co-operatives help to teach youth about entrepreneurship

A look at education initiatives in the Basque Country (Spain) and the Philippines

London Labour asks Sadiq Khan to launch a co-operative commission

The commission would examine the obstacles holding back the sector and suggest ways to support it

Growing consumer engagement: Credit unions get advice from Bonin Bough

'Customer service is not a call centre, it is a profit centre'

What AI can do for credit unions

AI expert Ayesha Khanna shared her thoughts at the World Credit Union Conference

CUNA asks Congress to increase funding for USAID co-op development

The credit union apex wants Congress to increase the funding for these programmes to US$20m

US Tobacco Cooperative files for bankruptcy

USTC processes US flue-cured tobacco grown by its member-growers in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,…

European Social Economy Awards open for nominations

The awards have three categories: social innovation; green transition; and digitisation and skills

Trinidad and Tobago credit union staff receive Covid-19 jabs

Around 5,000 vaccines have been allocated for credit unions