union-coops:uk
A campaigning organisation with members from worker co-operative and trade union movements.
union-coops:uk is a group of UK trade unionists, co-operators, educators, and academics, who are seeking to to create decent work through fully unionised worker co-operatives that have unions at the core of their democracy.
The idea of the union-co-op has grown out of a formal collaboration in different countries between unions and the co-operative movement and is based on an expanded set of co-operative principles which are focused on protecting worker’s rights, creating decent work and paying a fair wage:
- Voluntary and open membership
- Democratic member control
- Member economic participation
- Autonomy and independence
- Education, training and information
- Co-operation among co-operatives
- Concern for community
- Subsidiarity of capital to labour
- Solidarity and fairness in renumeration
- Commitment to union co-op development
