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- Ang Galing Mo, Kagawani!
- Asiapro joins 63rd Araw ng Medina Celebration
- Remaining Relevant
- General Assembly elects new members of the Board
- Organizational Updates
- Asiapro aims for an IIP Certification
- Back-to-back victory in Hugpong 2011 and RQCC
- Maragusan members among top graduates of the
Alternative Learning System (ALS) - Asiapro welcomes the relics of Blessed John Paul II
- South Luzon helps Pittland Elementary School
- Asiapro Malaybalay Branch recognizes outstanding members
- Asiapro Visayas joins back-to-back activities
- We take care of our own
- North Mindanao joins BOSH Training
- Basic First Aid Training in Valencia
- Livelihood Training In Maragusan
- Asiapro holds 2011 General Assembly
- Asiapro welcomes new branch in Cabadbaran
- Cagayan de Oro branch joins the TPM Kick-Off Program
- South Mindanao participates in BOSH training
- 2011 Strategic Review held in Antipolo
- Visayas and Mindanao Gawanihan
- Gawanihan 2011 paves the way for the year ahead
- Growing in Excellence Asiapro’s Retail Merchandising Program (RMP)
- Asiapro makes it again in Dugong Bombo 2010
- Asiapro at 11 in 2010
- Tree Planting at Brgy. East Kibawe, Bukidnon
- A hearty welcome for the new CDA chair
- Asiapro donates books and computers to Kiongkog Elementary School
- Kagawani Farm on its first harvest
- Coop Sector Gears Up for 10-10-10
- Asiapro’s advocacy of SELF-HELP synonymous to Rochdale Pioneers Society
- Enactment of RA 9520 generates nearly 2M jobs
- Villegas tackles the importance of Caritas in Veritate’s benevolence for workers
- Asiapro concludes its business midyear review
- The Evolution of Manpower Cooperatives
and Other Contingent Workers - Global Development of Coops: ICA 300
- AGRILOGX Asiapro’s agribusiness venture
- Asiapro invests in MEMPHIS TRUCKING
- Asiapro conducts series of Branch Assemblies
- UN declares 2012International Year of Cooperatives
- UA&P-CRC invites Asiapro to its Workers Coop Seminar
- Asiapro’s Team Kagawani Gets Kaizen Gold and Bronze Awards
- ILO’s Recommendation 2002 emphasizes the importance of cooperatives
- The Nexus Between Labor Laws and Workers Cooperatives
- A thriving self-help enterprise
- Asiapro: A thriving self-help enterprise
- Angara witnesses signing of 10 MOUs during Aurora Investment Summit
- Asiapro Founder signs MOA with Mondragon Corporacion Cooperativa
- Members share confidence in Asiapro Cooperative
- Nonregular workers coop contributes over P200 million
- Asiapro Cooperative: Molding temporary workers as productive ‘coopreneurs’
- Asiapro Cooperative: An ingenious development in Philippine labor and management
- Firm shows how to push employees to go into business
- Labor cooperative builds self-employed pool from underemployment
UA&P-CRC invites Asiapro to its Workers Coop Seminar
 Edmundo Castañeda discusses the Workers Cooperative Movement in the Philippines. |
Participants with resource persons at the Workers Cooperative Seminar-Workshop held at the University of Asia and the Pacific poses for a class picture. (front row: third from right is Mr. Edmundo Castañeda, Chairman of Asiapro Cooperative.The University of Asia and the Pacific’s School of Economics, in partnership with the Center for Research and Communication, and Coopworks conducted a one-day seminar-workshop on “Workers Co-operative as an Emerging Social Enterprise Model” on May 20, 2010 at the UA&P Campus, Pearl Drive, Ortigas Center, Pasig City.
Notable resource persons and discussants included leaders Mr. Edmundo Castañeda, Chairman of Asiapro Cooperative who talked about the Workers Cooperative Movement in the Philippines, and Asiapro Cooperative President Mr. Gabriel Quemado shared the Mondragon Corporacion Cooperativa best practices. Asiapro Cooperative is the Philippines’ first, largest and leading worker cooperative that offers flexible, cost-effective, and socially responsible solutions to service contracting and outsourcing needs.
Philippine Government regulatory agency on cooperative, Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) was also present as Chairperson Hon. Lecira Juarez detailed Cooperative Code RA 9520
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and the Implementing Rules and Regulations on Workers Cooperatives.
Special guest that delved on Beyond Compliance: Charity in Truth was Ms. Agnes Fernando of Canon Marketing Philippines. Mr. Bienvenido Nito, Director of CRC -Social enterprise unit discussed Social Teachings of the Catholic Church and the Workers Coop Model, while Coopworks Vice President, Mr. Robbie
Fabian facilitated the group discussion on the Issues and Challenges confronting the Workers Cooperatives; Summary and Next Steps.Workshop Moderators were Ms. Celia Guzman and Mr. Virgilio Hernandez of CoopWorks. Around 35 cooperative leaders and promoters attended the event, with the aim of fostering awareness on the workers cooperative model as a promising social enterprise; understanding social issues affecting workers’ productivity and how these can be addressed; finally, to encourage the coop sector to engage in future research projects along these lines.