Our Member Councils and Peer Networks are shaping the future of the worker co-op movement in the U.S. Here are the latest highlights from some of our Councils & Networks: The Union Co-ops […]
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Treasury Department Announces Suspension of Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act Against U.S. Citizens and Domestic Reporting Companies
On March 2, the Treasury Department announced the suspension of enforcement of the Corporate Transparency (CTA) against U.S. citizens and domestic reporting companies, and that the Treasury Department will further […]
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International Year of the Co-op Book Club
To celebrate the International Year of the Co-op, the COWOP Coalition and friends are reading selected chapters of The Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management, edited by Jerome Nikolai […]
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A Message to our LA Co-op Community: Support in the Wake of the Wildfires
We are aware of the challenges our co-op community is facing in the ongoing fires in Palisades and the surrounding area. While not all of our members in the area […]
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Highlights from our Member Councils and Peer Networks – June 2024
USFWC members join the REI workers union for a rally in New York to demand that REI negotiate in good faith with their workers and bargain a fair contract before […]
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Worker-owner spotlight: Emma Le, A Slice of New York Pizza
SAN JOSE, CA — I was fresh out of high school when COVID hit, and there was a tighter leash on job opportunities. I had heard horror stories from other […]
Read More >When labor owns the capital: Employee ownership is gaining popularity
An old movement to grow employee ownership is getting new life, with the goal of shrinking wealth inequality. The concept isn’t unprecedented — not at all, really. “Collective ownership is […]
Read More >Accent Landscape in El Paso becomes fully employee-owned
El Paso-based Accent Landscape Contractors is now a fully employee-owned enterprise. Apis & Heritage Capital Partners recently converted both Accent and Apex Plumbing in Denver to employee-owned businesses. Read more […]
Read More >Six Myths About Cooperatives Debunked
Co-ops are a business structure, and like any business, they require hard work to be successful. They are unique in that they bring individuals together to solve issues they wouldn’t […]
Read More >Employee ownership proving a success at The Home Beautiful
BELMONT — Owning a business is different from being an employee. For about a year, employees of The Home Beautiful have experienced the joys and hard work of ownership. The […]
Read More >Ron Gaydos: Cooperatives make a difference traditional businesses don’t
Is there a future for cooperatives? Yes. And a growing one, serving increasing numbers of Americans in the way only cooperatives can. Read more on
Read More >New York cleaners create new path to entrepreneurship
When Julieta Aquino leaves for work in the New York City neighbourhood of East Harlem, she does so on her own terms. She gets to decide when she works and […]
Read More >Pandemic turns heads toward co-op business model
The co-op has seen a surge in interest during the pandemic. Why it matters: Advocates see the alternative business model of worker ownership as a path out of income inequality, […]
Read More >Plausible, Pessimistic, Optimistic, Transformative, Wild: Envisioning Our Futures
Clear-eyed appraisal of all possible outcomes—both good and bad—is crucial for strategic progress towards social transformation. Read more on Non Profit Quarterly
Read More >Atwater Village: Sowing Seeds of Economic Democracy
In a northeast corner of Los Angeles, not far from where I live, there’s a neighborhood called Atwater Village, and in that neighborhood an enterprise called the Proof Bakery does […]
Read More >Mass. lawmakers champion funding for worker-owned businesses
“It’s nice to know I am part of positive change in the world,” said O’Brien, the company’s founder, general manager and one of its owner-workers. The printing enterprise is a […]
Read More >Inside the Black and Queer-led Movement of Regenerative Winemaking
Justine Belle Lambright wants you to question everything you know about wine — where it comes from, whose labor produced it, and who gets to define it. Read more on […]
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