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2405, 2017

newsbook.com.mt – reports on the 10 proposals for 2017 political parties electoral manifestos

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Newsbook.com.mt reports on the Malta Co-operative Federation's proposals for the 2017 political parties electoral manifestos.   The news portal give prominence to the Federation's proposals on Housing Co-operatives. "To respond to the disproportionately high housing and rental costs, co-operative housing schemes shall be encouraged, such that every family may have a chance to access modest housing." The news portal also reports that since its inception in 2012 the Malta Co-operative Federation is still suffering discrimination despite repeated promises made by Government to resolve this issue.

1201, 2016

Chief Pilot Capt Jesmond Mifsud on TVAM discussing cooperatives

By |January 12, 2016|Categories: In the press, News, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Chief Pilot Capt Jesmond Mifsud on TVAM discussing cooperatives

Malta Maritime Pilots Co-operative President, Chief Pilot Capt Jesmond Mifsud was a guest this morning on Malta's National Television Station's Breakfast Show, TVAM. Capt. Mifsud was invited to explain the co-operative model and to illustrate the achievements of the Malta Maritime Pilots Co-operative along the years. Capt. Mifsud listed the benefits of working in a co-operative, and how the co-operative model can be an alternative business proposition for persons who want to work together in a worker co-op. Workers, he explained can come together, pool their collective resources in a democratically-controlled enterprise (one-member-one vote system) and become owners of their own place of work. [...]

1307, 2015

ICA President Dame Pauline Green announces her early retirement

By |July 13, 2015|Categories: In the press, News|Comments Off on ICA President Dame Pauline Green announces her early retirement

The International Co-operative Alliance announced the retirement of its President, Dame Pauline Green to take effect at the close of the Alliance’s general assembly in Antalya, Turkey, on 13 November 2015. The Malta Co-operative Federation is indebted to Dame Green for her numerous contributions to the Maltese co-operative movement prior and during her tenure as President of the Alliance.

407, 2015

Co-operatives and the Fair Society

By |July 4, 2015|Categories: In the press, MCF opinion, News|Comments Off on Co-operatives and the Fair Society

This year’s theme for the International Day of Co-operatives is centred around the aspect of equality, and the role of co-operatives in making our societies fair and sustainable. With the advent of globalisation, there were dreams of a more equitable distribution of wealth, knowledge, people and technology. With the benefit of hindsight however, it is evident that we have been incapable of making the best of coming together: A recent Credit Suisse report estimated that the top one percent of the globe’s population possesses nearly half of the world’s wealth, whereas the bottom half of the world’s population holds less [...]

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