Telephone (main):
+48 22 628 27 63 - 12 655 09 91
Websites:
Address (main):
Ul. Zurawia 47
00-680 Warsaw
Poland
Country:
Poland
Super-region:
Europe
Structure type:
National sectoral federation or union
Economic activity (primary):
Industry
Typology:
Worker coops
Description:
NAUWC is a voluntary and self-governing organisation, which associates labour cooperatives and all othercooperative organisations in Poland. NAUWC runs statutory and legal activities in the following fields:
- Auditing financial statements of cooperatives;
- Providing consultancy as well as financial, legal, and self-governing trainings for members of supervisory boards, management boards and staff of workers’ cooperatives and cooperative organisations;
- Training personnel for cooperatives, scientific & technical cooperation and publishing activities;
- Archiving documents of liquidated cooperatives and cooperative organisations;
- Providing economic integration and promotion of workers’ cooperatives in Poland and abroad;
- Functioning of mutual aid funds, including the Cooperative Development Fund and the Cooperative Credit Guarantee Fund;
- Awarding state, branch and regional prizes to workers’ cooperatives, cooperative organisations and their members for activities in the fields of self-government and economy;
- Promoting international cooperative principles and the Polish workers’ cooperatives traditions;
- Representing workers’ cooperatives circles in Poland and abroad.
NAUWC represented 6,200 individual members in 2011.
