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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
A thriving self-help enterprise
Dinna Chan Vasquez
As publicized in www.manilastandardtoday.com
May 22, 2008
Asiapro Multi-purpose Cooperative, a self-help program, helps informal/non-regular employees organize themselves into a self-employed cooperative.
Based on recent labor data, there are over 20 million workers in the country’s informal labor sector. Most of these workers are marginalized casual, contractual, seasonal, temporary and non-regular employees. Under the Asiapro model, workers from this rank organize themselves and form a self-employed workers cooperative.
Asiapro pioneered the concept of self-employed workers cooperative by modifying and eliminating the disadvantages brought about by the current status of contractual, contingent and temporary employment. The cooperative has introduced the concept of transforming workers into “entrepreneurs,” or “coopreneuers.”
Each member is a self-employed worker-owner. Thus, transactions are not carried out in the context of an employee-employer relationship. The worker is co-owner of the cooperative and engages in contractual assignments with the cooperative serving as the contracting party.
Asiapro members have enough leverage to enjoy benefits that are at par if not better than those enjoyed by other contingent workers and even by regular workers of some companies.
Asiapro members also enjoy higher income from their services and share in the cooperative’s surplus. They also have insurance, health care, savings and other standard employment benefits. Members have access to training programs, savings and credit facilities and other livelihood opportunities.
As co-owners of the enterprise, members have the opportunity to share whatever success the cooperative will reap.
Asiapro Cooperative’s clients come from a variety of industries—manufacturing, distribution, agribusiness, property management, construction and utilities, hotel and food services, financial services, personal care and retailing. It also pursues outsourcing contracts and partnerships in areas such as logistics, sales and promotion, packing, hygiene, housekeeping and maintenance services.