Fixing the Future: Co-operatives and Trade Unions Working Together

This event explores how trade unions and co-operatives can collaborate in the UK. Fragmentation of work and precariousness among workers are symptoms of a general crisis of the political system and social atomisation. Our report evidences how we can we organise to build solidarity, extend workers' control and challenge inequalities.

What do trade unions add to co-operatives?
What do cooperatives add to trade unions?
What are the benefits of collaboration for a progressive economy and decent work?

Please register for attendance.

At Friends' Meeting House from 17.00 to 19.00 on 23rd October 2025.

See the report: https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/970008219/D3815_Mangan_Co-operatives_and_Trade_Unions_web.pdf

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