CICOPA

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CICOPA is the International Organisation of Industrial and Service Cooperatives

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CICOPA is a sectoral organisation of the International Co-operative Alliance. Its full members are representative organisations of producers’ co-operatives from different sectors: construction, industrial production, general services, transport, intellectual skills, artisanal activities, health, social care, etc. Its associated members are support organisations promoting cooperatives in those sectors.

Many of those cooperatives are worker cooperatives, namely cooperatives where the members are the staff of the enterprise, i.e., worker-members. Because of this, those enterprises are characterized by a distinctive type of labour relations, called “worker ownership”, different from the one experienced by conventional employees or by self-employed.