trade unions role

One video

• Union Coop UK - Manifesto Launch

  July 2020

A pedagogical tool

• Social and Solidarity Economy: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Development : The reader 2014 (ILO Academy)

  Social and Solidarity Economy Academy, 28th July – 1st August 2014, Campinas, Brazil.

  Marcelo Alejandro Vieta, Arildo Mota Lopes, Nancy Néamtan, Leandro Pereira Morais, Augusto Togni de Almeida Abreu,, Roberto Marinho Alves da Silva, Leonardo Pamplona, Peter Utting, Antonella Noya, 2014

  BIT/ILO

One proposal

• Proposal Paper of the Socioprofessional Network of Trade Unions: The Trade-union Movement at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century

  This short text presents the Networkk’s main proposals for a new strategy for the labor movement. The Socioprofessinal Network of Unions has tried to identify strategies and tactics that can modernize and improve the trade-union movement’s response to the challenge of globalization, precarious working conditions, and the difficulties of communication that can arise between trade unionists and members of other social movements working for a better world.

  November 2001

3 case studies

• UH Vision 2010 Program in Cleveland, OH: Exemplary Purchasing by an Anchor Institution

  Brief RELIESS n° 11

  March 2014

  RELIESS

• Collective Bargaining Among Transport Workers in Georgia

  Elza Jerenaia, December 2012

• A cooperative in India: the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

  Rajni Bakshi, September 2008

  CED

9 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Organizing Workers in the Informal Economy in Selected African and Latin Ame- rican Countries: The Potential of Trade Union Associations and the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) partnerships

  CIRIEC-España, Revista de Economía Pública, Social y Cooperativa,

  Colombia Pérez Muñoz, Abigail Hunt, Moizza Binat Sarwar, 2022

  CIRIEC - España - Revista de Economía pública, social y cooperativa

• SZAKSZERVEZETEK ÉS LAKHATÁS: NEMZETKÖZI PÉLDÁK, HAZAI LEHETŐSÉGEK (Trade Unions and Housing: International examples, Domestic opportunities)

  Friedrich Hebert Stiftung

  Jelinek Csaba, Pósfai Zsuzsanna és Szabó Natasa, November 2020

• Three Futures for Trade Unions in 2049

  Article and audio of the Green European Journal

  November 2019

• Trade union and co-operative innovations for precarious workers

  Patrick Conaty, Alex Bird, Cilla Ross, March 2018

• Organising precarious workers : Trade union and cooperative strategies

  A report for the TUC from Co-operatives UK and the Co-operative College

  Patrick Conaty, Alex Bird, Cilla Ross, January 2018

• Trade unions and worker cooperatives: Where are we at?

  ILO Publication

  ACTRAV, April 2014

  BIT/ILO

• The Social Economy in Quebec. Lessons and Challenges for Internationalizing Co-operation.

  Marguerite Mendell, 2008

• Income security: why unions should campaign for a basic income

  Guy Standing, 2004

• Transformations in the work and in the unionism

  This text proposes a re-definition of unions’ involvement and modes of actions that takes into account the contemporary world mutations (cultural and social globalisation).

  Claudio Nascimento, October 2001

3 articles

• Building participatory dwelling: solidarity housing for unions

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - May 2022

  Agnes Gagyi, May 2022

  RIPESS Europe, SOLIDARITY ECONOMY CENTER

• Unions and co-ops – a new way forward for workers?

  Article of thenews.coop, 29 April 2019

  Miles Hadfield, April 2019

• Waste picking is work

  Article from Political Critique July 5, 2016

  Marketa VINKELHOFEROVÁ, July 2016

  (Political Critique) Krytyka Polityczna