MoA between CoTech and workers.coop

There is a important open CoTech vote on Loomio:

This vote is to approve the terms of the formal association of CoTech and workers.coop, with the aim of reducing duplication of organising and fundraising effort, amplifying our collective impact and capacity, while conserving CoTech’s culture and much of its operational independence.

The terms of the association are contained in the attached Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) which has been worked on by CoTech members over the last few months. It has already been approved by the Board of workers.coop, so it will come into effect if it receives consent here.

Some background to the discussion leading up to this proposal is in another PDF attached. The MoA is the culmination of 8 months of discussion here and back-and-forth on the terms and wording.

Leaving this open for voting until September 10th, to get as close to full CoTech governance member participation as possible.

I’ve reposting the above here to ensure that as many people as possible see this and also in case anyone here who is not on Loomio wants to discuss it, I’ve also updated the wiki page on workers.coop so it now has a record of the discussions and decisions so far.

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This proposal has been agreed, 15 votes in favour, none against, as @Sion posted in the Loomio thread:

Pleased to confirm the vote was unanimous to align CoTech as an industrial member group of workers.coop under the terms of the memorandum. As workers.coop has already approved the agreement, we can get going on practical steps.

We will start working on the practical steps next week at the gathering in Colchester, I hope to see lots of CoTech / workers.coop co-op workers there!

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This is so awesome! Thanks to all those involved.

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