With 7.1 million workers engaged in ‘precarious’ employment and 77 per cent of the self-employed living in poverty, a new report ‘Working Together: Trade Union and Co-operative Innovations for Precarious Work’ calls for increased protection for those operating in the so-called gig economy. The report, which has been supported by the Solidarity Economy Association alongside the Network for Social Change is
In the wake of the recent UK referendum result in which the British public voted to leave the European Union, the national trade body for co-operatives has released a report into the effect the decision will have on co-operative businesses. Co-operatives UK’s ‘Brexit: Taking Back Control The Co-operative Way‘ sets out the organisation’s ‘positive vision for how co-operatives can fit