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The Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation is a national, bilingual grassroots membership organization of and for worker co-operatives, related types of co-operatives (multi-stakeholder co-ops and worker-shareholder co-ops), and organizations that support the growth and development of worker co-operatives. CWCF was incorporated in 1992.
Vision: To be a growing, cohesive network of democratically controlled worker co-ops that provide a high quality of worklife, and support the development of healthy and sustainable local economies, based on co-operative principles.
Mission: To strengthen our worker co-ops; support the development of new worker co-ops; represent the Canadian worker co-op movement in Canada and internationally, and strengthen the Federation.
In the latest CWCF Newsletter, check out - Business Succession Conference summary, Generations in Worker Co-ops workshop notes, the new Daycare Co-op in Moncton, the launch of the International Year of Co-operatives, worker co-ops in the news and more!
Press Release – December 15, 2011
Manuel Mariscal, from the Spanish Confederation of Worker Cooperatives (COCETA), was elected as president of CICOPA (the world worker co-operative federation) at the General Assembly that was held in Cancun, Mexico on November 17, 2011.
Check out worker co-operative news from around the world! at http://www.cicopa.coop/Issue-5-October-2011.html
October 13, 2011
Quebec Declaration
CWCF Executive Director Hazel Corcoran and President Alain Bridault made a presentation to the Standing Committee on Finance in Ottawa on February 15, 2011.
They recommended that the federal government:
1. Launch a Co-operative Investment Strategy with two components :
a. A Canadian Co-operative Development Fund; and
b. A federal Co-op Investment Plan
2. Make the federal Co-operative Development Initiative (CDI) permanent;
3. Expand the CDI into the new area of conversions to worker co-ops.
See the entire written presentation attached below.
Attached below, please see CWCF's article titled 'The Case for Worker Co-operatives' in the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' February 2011 issue of the Monitor.
For more info on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives go to: http://www.policyalternatives.ca/.
February 3, 2011
The Rationale for Worker Co-operatives report, poster and brochure are attached below. To help raise awareness of democratic and co-operative workplaces based on equality, please distribute widely. Call 403 276-8250 or email david@canadianworker.coop to have copies mailed out to you.
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