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• W321441957 abstract "IntroductionSYNDICOOP was a project which operated in Africa from 2002 to 2006, aimed at improving working and living conditions of unprotected informal economy workers through collaboration of trade unions and cooperatives. The project covered Rwanda, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. An attempt to extend project to South Africa was unsuccessful.SYNDICOOP is of interest as a rare example of a structured and deliberate collaboration between trade union and cooperative movements.This paper will provide a narrative of SYNDICOOP, attempt to draw up a balance sheet of its achievements, consider why project did not take off in South Africa, and why it has not been replicated since 2006. Finally, this paper will reflect on what lessons SYNDICOOP experience may have for wider issues of trade union and cooperative relationship.This paper will not consider other examples of trade union-cooperative joint action although these do exist.The SYNDICOOP projectSYNDICOOP was conceived as a pilot project in East Africa for purpose of improving working and living conditions of unprotected informal economy workers. The project started in 2002, initially to cover Rwanda, United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda. In 2004 Kenya was added as a fourth country. The project ended in April 2006.In South Africa, a pilot project was implemented in 2004, initially for one year and extended in 2005 for a further year, but without any real impact. From July 2006 project was dormant.At international and national level, project was governed through formal relationships between trade union and cooperative structures. At international level, partners were International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and International Cooperative Alliance (ICA); two offices within ILO were involved: Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV) and Cooperative Branch (COOP).The overall objective of project was to improve working and living conditions of unprotected workers in informal economy in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The immediate objectives were:* strengthening trade union and cooperative capacity to organize unprotected informal economy workers; and* improving beneficiaries' working and living conditions through pilot projects.The backgroundIn 2002, International Labour Conference (ILC) held a discussion on Decent Work and Informal Economy. The report prepared for meeting and conclusions of discussion contained a number of references to potential of trade unions and cooperatives to organize in informal economy. Examples were noted of potential of cooperatives and, in summary, report stated:Where there are major constraints to informal operators or workers joining existing employers' organizations or trade unions or establishing their own organizations most effective membership based organizational structure may be that of a cooperative... The formal cooperative movement has not developed specific strategies for dealing with informal economy - mainly because the boundaries between formal and informal are not as important to organizations that are used to dealing in market economy as a whole (ILO, 2002, p. 93).This was hardly a ringing endorsement; implication was that cooperatives provided a fail-back, a second best to gold standard of workers' and employers' organizations. A similar statement occurs in reports prepared for discussions on Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189).The 2002 report clearly outlined some scope for a closer relationship:Both trade union and cooperative movements recognize that they each bring to informal economy a set of strengths that are wide ranging and complementary and that there is therefore considerable potential for collaboration (ILO, 2002, p. …" @default.
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• W321441957 title "The Experience of SYNDICOOP in Africa: A Model for Trade Union Action?" @default.
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