Co-ops are businesses owned and governed by their members. Co-ops can form as start-ups or by converting from an existing small business. Co-ops fall into a few general categories. Consumer […]
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The Former Deadspin People Explain How to Launch a Worker-Owned Media Co-op That Might Succeed
For the past five years, the media industry has been on a unionizing spree. This wave of worker empowerment—combined with the industry’s regular waves of layoffs, folding publications, and management […]
Read More >The Former Deadspin People Explain How to Launch a Worker-Owned Media Co-op That Might Succeed
For the past five years, the media industry has been on a unionizing spree. This wave of worker empowerment—combined with the industry’s regular waves of layoffs, folding publications, and management […]
Read More >Building Bridges, Not Walking on Backs
A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for COVID-19 The road to economic recovery should not be across women’s backs. COVID-19, and the measures being implemented to contain it, are deeply affecting […]
Read More >Cooperative Ownership: A Covid Recovery Strategy
Greater community control over local economies can help to stave off the predators that—as we learned during the 2008 crisis—start to circle the most marginalized populations when disaster strikes. Co-ownership […]
Read More >Johnson Introduces Bill to Help Businesses Restore Capital, Give Employees Stake in Business Success
“Unfortunately, many businesses of all sizes remain either totally or significantly shut down months into the coronavirus pandemic. PPP provided short-term financial support to small businesses, but now Congress needs […]
Read More >Empowered Employees Key to Digital Transformation
Employee ownership is the fuel that makes a digital transformation pilot succeed. The digital transformation needs to start by providing every technician affected by the new technologies a chance to […]
Read More >East Lothian’s Jerba Campervans speeds up profits and productivity
East Lothian firm Jerba Campervans has welcomed accelerated productivity and profit in its most recent financial year – saying it is very much seeing the benefits of employee ownership. Read […]
Read More >Small businesses are struggling. Workers can be the solution.
Whether for those that were spared the worst or those on the edge of survival, the most plausible option for saving businesses and jobs is often an employee buyout. Ideally, […]
Read More >When Bosses Shared Their Profits
In December 1916, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a report on profit-sharing, suggesting it as a way to reduce the “frequent and often violent disputes” between employers and workers, […]
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