A new Board of Director was also elected The members of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) have renewed the mandate of Ariel Guarco for the next four years. From a […]
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Worker Retention in Homecare: Could Cooperatives Be the Solution?
The current and future worker shortage is fueled in large part by a problem well known to the industry: high turnover. One underexplored solution to this problem may be homecare […]
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Worker Co-ops In DC Provide Mutual Aid to Stranded Asylum-Seekers
Para leer esta entrada en español haga clic aquí During our Spring Member Meeting, Bianca Vazquez of Beloved Community Incubator shared how immigrant-led worker cooperatives are supporting recent migrant families from Colombia, […]
Read More >Brightly, first U.S. franchised immigrant co-op, expands in New York and Philadelphia
Salvation, for Aguilar, came from a perhaps unlikely place: a business model best known to fans of McDonald’s. She’s now a franchisee. Two years ago, alongside nine fellow immigrants, Aguilar […]
Read More >Labor secretary meets with companies to bolster job quality as a record number of Americans quit
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh met with companies on Friday to discuss how the private sector can improve job quality, as a record number of employees in the United States are […]
Read More >What If We Owned It?
The story of Black co-ops and alternative economics in the United States is one of violence and persecution—but it is also a story of hope and determination. The history of […]
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Read More >Safeguarding Our Local Economies: Cooperative businesses on display at RI State House
Fuerza Laboral and the P.O.W.E.R. Network hosted a fair at the Rhode Island State House on Tuesday featuring many of the business cooperatives, from a host of different industries, offering […]
Read More >Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority could receive $1.2M in city funding
Pittsburgh City Council is poised to allocate $1.2 million to the city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority to fund several programs. The investment would include $150,000 for the Pittsburgh Task Force on […]
Read More >Employee-owned businesses foster healthier local economies
At Kaiser Permanente, we know that health, economic opportunity, and wealth are linked, and small businesses create vital jobs and thriving local economies. During the last 2 recessions, employee-owned enterprises […]
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