1. © CECOP 2007 3d Cooperative Convention 18 – 19 June 2007 - Prague Relations between federations of worker and social cooperatives and trade unions in Europe Bruno Roelants CECOP

2. © CECOP 2007 Within the framework of the Social Partner Programme (SPP) of Cooperatives Europe

3. © CECOP 2007 CECOP – CICOPA EUROPE Sectoral member of Cooperatives Europe for industrial, service and craft cooperatives

4. © CECOP 2007 Enterprise typologies: Worker cooperatives Social cooperatives Cooperatives of craftsmen and small businesses Employee-owned enterprises

5. © CECOP 2007 Cooperatives Europe CECOP Number of enterprises 186 00060 000 (32%) Number of workers 3.3 million1.3 million (39%)

6. © CECOP 2007 Aggregate turnover of 45 billion € (average: 750 000 €)

7. © CECOP 2007 CECOP federates representative organisations in 18 EU member states (out of 27)

8. © CECOP 2007 Around 70% of workers are worker-members

9. © CECOP 2007 Worker-member: Distinctive type of labour relations

10. © CECOP 2007 Different national situations:

11. © CECOP 2007 1 Sectoral relations with trade unions are part of an institutionalized and formal social dialogue at the cooperative intersectoral level

12. © CECOP 2007 2 Sectoral cooperative organisations are members of the official national employer organisations

13. © CECOP 2007 3 Relations with the trade unions are frequent and focus on specific policy issues but no part in official social dialogue

14. © CECOP 2007 4 No involvement in social dialogue

15. © CECOP 2007 Mandate from cooperative enterprises

16. © CECOP 2007 Relation between rate of unionisation and national position in social dialogue

17. © CECOP 2007 Difference between involvement in - Collective agreements - Dialogue on policy issues

18. © CECOP 2007 CECOP – ETUC Working on specific policy issues

19. © CECOP 2007 -Reach a better understanding of worker ownership

20. © CECOP 2007 -Reach a better understanding of worker ownership - Analyse the different typologies of non members and their involvement in the cooperative

21. © CECOP 2007 -Reach a better understanding of worker ownership - Analyse the different typologies of non members and their involvement in the cooperative - Analyse training and audit systems in worker involvement

22. © CECOP 2007 -Reach a better understanding of worker ownership - Analyse the different typologies of non members and their involvement in the cooperative - Analyse training and audit systems in worker involvement - Reach common standards

23. © CECOP 2007 - Reach a better understanding of worker ownership - Analyse the different typologies of non members and their involvement in the cooperative - Analyse training and audit systems in worker involvement - Reach common standards - Establish a common monitoring system

24. © CECOP 2007 Working on the issue of restructuring and our good practices in this field

25. © CECOP 2007 www.cecop.coop cecop@cecop.coop