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When is a Co-op not a Co-op? When it’s Cleveland Fire Service
Anna Turley considers the Coalition’s plans to ‘mutualise’ Cleveland Fire Service and asks whether it truly matches up to co-operative principles. When is a Co-op not a Co-op? Answer – when it has no employee engagement, no community support, no democratic accountability and can be sold off to the highest bidder. This is the worrying [...]
Co-operative Party Gala Dinner 2013 with Ed Balls MP
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Event: How should we deal with household indebtedness?
The Labour Policy Review have organised the following event with the Labour Finance and Industry Group and Labour in the City: How should we deal with household indebtedness? Large numbers of families use door stop and pay day lenders. The growth of the high interest, short term loan industry is matched by the squeezing of people’s wages and [...]
Co-operative Party submission to Welsh Commission
The Co-operative Party has submitted written evidence to the Welsh Government’s Co-operatives and Mutuals Commission. Deputy General Secretary Karen Wilkie outlines our case. The Commission posed a number of questions for the movement to respond to – all very pertinent to how the Welsh Government could help co-ops – which it should. What these may [...]
Tell David Cameron to Make Food Fair at the G8 Summit
During Fairtrade Fortnight, the Make Food Fair campaign was launched by the Fairtrade Foundation. Smallholder farmers produce the majority of the world’s food, but they also make up half of the world’s hungriest people. Many rely on co-operatives to help them get their food to market. The G8 summit this June takes place in the [...]
Government challenged to support Co-operative education
Today Meg Munn MP (Lab/Co-op) will call for the Government to support her ‘Co-operative Schools Bill’. Co-operative Trust Schools, launched by the last Labour Government, are a major success story. There are now hundreds of co-operative schools across England. Co-operative schools represent a co-operative response to the break-up of the education system, seen by many [...]
Meg Munn MP: why I am bringing forward the Co-operative Schools Bill
Later today, Labour & Co-operative MP Meg Munn will introduce the Co-operative Schools Bill in Parliament under the 10-minute rule. Here she tells us why. This afternoon, I will rise in the Commons to introduce the Co-operative Schools Bill. It is a landmark in the extraordinary story of co-operative education, a movement that has hugely [...]
Labour & Co-operative County Council candidates are go!
Over 250 Labour & Co-operative candidates are standing in the May County Council elections this year. Co-operative candidates, many of them existing councillors, are standing in every county council area in England with the exception of Warwickshire. With Ed Miliband launching Labour’s campaign with a speech at the East of England Co-op and the ever-growing interest [...]
Meg Munn MP to introduce Co-operative Schools Bill next week
A 10 Minute Rule Bill on Co-operative Schools will be introduced by Meg Munn, Labour & Co-operative MP for Sheffield Heeley, on Wednesday 17 April. The Co-operative Party has been working with the Co-operative College. College Principal Mervyn Wilson has written for the Co-operative News outlining the growth of co-op schools to over 450 schools [...]
Support the Co-operative Schools Bill in Parliament
A 10 Minute Rule Bill on Co-operative Schools will be introduced by Meg Munn, Labour and Co-operative MP for Sheffield Heeley, on Wednesday 17 April. Developed with the Co-operative College, the Bill will call for schools to be able to register themselves as Industrial & Provident Societies and for an amendment to the Education Act [...]
