The confederation of cooperatives says that its goal in 2023 is to guarantee its presence in the Lanbide Council, not that it is “just a right.”
The Euskadi Confederation of Cooperatives, Konfekoop, closed 2022 with 1,391 associated cooperatives, with a net increase compared to the previous year of 41 new incorporations. Regarding the number of jobs, at the end of the year there were 56,762, of which 11,000 are salaried workers and the rest are cooperative members.
These figures have been presented this Friday at a press conference in Bilbao in an appearance by its president, Rosa Lavín, and its director, Iñaki Nubla.
Both officials have explained that, for this year, the confederation has set itself the objectives of “continuing to grow in associated companies and direct jobs, advancing in inter-institutional collaboration, especially with the Basque Government and Provincial Councils, extending the cooperative model in Euskadi, mainly among young people, and ensure the presence of the cooperative movement in Lanbide.
In this objective of growing in the number of associates, Nubla has advanced that in the first four-month period of 2023, Konfekoop has promoted the creation of 51 new companies through Enkarlan.
In general lines, the evolution of employment is “positive” although the confederation has closed 2022 with a decrease of 387 workers0.6% less than the previous year, data that Nubla has linked to the fact that, during the two years of the pandemic, the associated companies reinforced their workforces to respond to the needs generated and the casualties caused by the positives.
Facing this exercise, Konfekoop has been marked as a strategy cope with the current scenario of rising costs and prices due to rising inflation but, at the same time, continue to be “competitive” companies.
Lavín has pointed out that the challenges of the business group of cooperatives for this 2023 have as their main goal to achieve their “historic claim” of join the Board of Directors of Lanbide to influence the active employment policies promoted by the Basque Employment Service.
Source: Eitb
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