“You can’t hate someone who you know a lot about,” said keynote speaker Rachel Plattus, drawing on the words of Gladys Tantaquidgen, a famed Mohegan anthropologist. Plattus, in her address at […]
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How the Stud Was Saved: An 18-member nightlife collective prevented SoMa’s 50-year-old queer bar from disappearing.
It’s 11:40 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, and everyone around me is drunk. I’m drunk, too. I’m at The Stud, a 50-year-old gay bar in San Francisco’s South of Market […]
Read More >Space Cooperative Launches Social Network for Citizen-Led Blockchain Space Agency
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Space Cooperative, an international worker-cooperative focused on space expansion, has launched Space Decentral (spacedecentral.net) a social network for space and the first mission control […]
Read More >Worker Cooperatives Offer Real Alternatives to Trump’s Retrograde Economic Vision
Announcing his presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised the nation that he’d become “the greatest job president God ever created.” His plan to accomplish this rested on a retrograde economic […]
Read More >WCNC 2018 named one of the best social justice and equity conferences in 2018 by Beneficial State Foundation
Who doesn’t love a good social justice conference? Inspo, healthy optimism, new friends?! We social justice conference groupies are in luck because 2018 is optimal for justice-themed conferences across the […]
Read More >Listen to this podcast, Everything Co-op with our board member, Mai Nguyen
Vernon Oakes interviews Kim Koontz, and Mai Nguyen, of the California Center for Cooperative Development and USFWC Board Member. Everything Co-op is a Talk Show that airs on WOL 1450 AM, […]
Read More >Bicycle-powered compost co-operative may get rolling this year
The new year could see a new Greenfield co-op off to a roll, after three years of development in a “think tank” at the Franklin County Jail. It’s a worker-owned […]
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A worker-owned cooperative turns a profit
Image via Oregon Business A few weeks after the Little Devil and Whitewater fires almost destroyed the Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat and Conference Center, I made my first pilgrimage to the resort. It was an […]
Read More >Baby Boomer Retirement Means Now’s the Time for Worker-Owned Businesses
While conversations and early work on converting more existing businesses into worker-owned companies are picking up in cities around the country, one group in Detroit has decided it doesn’t have […]
Read More >Can Employee Ownership Hold Back a Tsunami of Small Business Closures?
A “silver tsunami” of Baby Boom business owners, who employ 24.7 million, will retire in the next decade or two. Advocates through both policy and nonprofit technical assistance centers promote […]
Read More >Ariel Guarco, from Argentina, elected president of the International Co-operative Alliance
Ariel Guarco from Argentina has been elected president of the International Co-operative Alliance. The election took place at the International Co-operative Alliance’s General Assembly, a biennial event, held this year […]
Read More >New “State of the Co-op Economy” report counts 40,000 co-ops in U.S.
by Elizabeth Lechleitner/NCBA CLUSA “Measuring the impact of cooperatives is much more than measuring their total employment, total revenue, or the total number of establishments and businesses, but it’s a […]
Read More >Worker co-op bill means more Rhode Islanders can own businesses
By Aran Valente on October 23, 2017 On September 19, 2017 the Rhode Island General Assembly passed Senator Donna Nesslebush’s Senate Bill 0676 Sub A and Representative Shelby Maldonado’s House […]
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Blueprint for The Most Radical City on the Planet
Image via huffingtonpost.com In July 2017, 34 year old Chokwe Antar Lumumba was sworn in as Mayor of Jackson Mississippi. He soon announced that the city was going to be “the most radical […]
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NEW CUCI Co-op in Childcare! Introducing Nanny Share
CUCI has begun investigating the possibilities of creating a multi-stakeholder cooperative (ie.worker and parent owned) in the childcare industry. We have started this work by doing a small pilot nanny […]
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Worker-Owned Businesses Get More Support From D.C.
“Federal officials and policymakers are putting more emphasis on worker-ownership of businesses. This support comes at a time when the cooperative model — a business owned and controlled by its workers, who […]
Read More >Nurses Join Forces With Labor Union to Launch Healthcare Platform Cooperative
“This the first time that our union has had a worker cooperative partner … we had to be slow and careful in a way we couldn’t be with a different […]
Read More >Unions and Worker Co-ops, Old Allies, Are Joining Forces Again
“From the early days of the labor movement, as John Curl makes clear in his excellent book For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and […]
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After raising more than $9,000, the Maryland Co-op is back — with mac ‘n cheese (PS, there’s still time to donate!)
“Immediately … we got a huge amount of support from the community,” said Chris Moulson, a worker-owner at the Co-op for the past four years. “People came out left and […]
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Employee Ownership and the Next System
“In the near future, worker cooperatives will have a very essential role in converting existing small businesses where the founder wants to retire to broad based employee ownership. Any notion […]
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