We aim to achieve Investors in People accreditation in 1998. The first workers co-operative to be able to prove the quality of our organisation to customers, suppliers and the public. Working at Suma Working at Suma is quite unlike other businesses. Our workers must be more self motivated and take more initiative. SUMA departmental coordinators do not have an overseer role in the normal sense.
Workers support each other to fulfill daily tasks and get home on time.
Working as an effective member of a cooperative, not just doing the daily tasks but taking part in the management of the business, is a new skill which all new members have to learn, whether they have been shop-floor or management previously. The business can only succeed when all members share this responsibility. It's a good wage for manual warehouse workers and the extra reflects the collective management element of our jobs. We also have a Profit Related Pay scheme, employee sales at cost, members' pensions etc. Wage costs overall are industry average.