Konfekoop ended 2022 with 1,391 affiliated cooperatives, 41 more than last year

The Euskadi Confederation of Cooperatives, Konfekoop, closed 2022 with 1,391 member cooperatives, with a net increase over the previous year of 41 new creations. In terms of the number of jobs, there were 56,762 at the end of the year, of which 11,000 were salaried and the rest co-operative members.

These figures were presented this Friday at a press conference in Bilbao in the presence of the President, Rosa Lavín, and the Director, Iñaki Nubla.

Both officials explained that the confederation has set itself the goal for this year “to continue to grow in associated companies and direct jobs, to make progress in inter-institutional cooperation, especially with the Basque government and provincial councils, to expand the cooperation model in Euskadi , mainly among young people, and ensure the presence of the cooperative movement in Lanbide.

In this objective to grow the number of employees, Nubla has put forward that Konfekoop will start the establishment of 51 new companies through Enkarlan.

In general, the evolution of employment is “positive”, although the confederation has closed 2022 with a decrease of 387 employees0.6% less than last year, data Nubla linked to the fact that during the two years of the pandemic, the associated companies strengthened their workforces to respond to the needs generated and the casualties caused by the positives.

For the purpose of this exercise, Konfekoop has been marked as a strategy deal with the current scenario of rising costs and prices due to rising inflation, but at the same time remain “competing” companies.

Lavín has pointed out that the co-op business group’s challenges for 2023 have as their main goal to strengthen their “historic claim” of to join Lanbide’s Board of Directors influence the active employment policy promoted by the Basque employment service.