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Cooperation Buffalo and PUSH Buffalo announce 12-week Cooperative Academy

Posted on August 28, 2019August 28, 2019

Worker cooperatives can thrive in a number of cottage industries, from communal living scenarios to neighborhood banking (credit unions). Those are a couple of working examples found in Buffalo. But […]

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Clearing the Legal and Financial Pathway for Worker Cooperatives in Illinois

Posted on August 28, 2019August 28, 2019

“The worker cooperative project felt like the space where I could go an envision an economy that would work for us, it was something I could focus my energies on […]

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85,000 Jobs Could Be Lost in Connecticut, With More Across the Nation, Unless We Act

Posted on July 24, 2019July 24, 2019

Democratic employee-ownership allows those who know the business best to keep it running and enjoy its rewards: the employees. Second, conversion to democratic employee-ownership can occur smoothly. Full conversions need […]

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Worker-owned domestic cleaning businesses are gearing up for a massive expansion

Posted on July 17, 2019July 17, 2019

For domestic workers like home cleaners, having a job often does not guarantee bringing in enough wages to get by. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, home cleaners earn just around $11 […]

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How can co-ops help workers in the gig economy?

Posted on July 17, 2019July 17, 2019

Faced with continuing automation and digitisation, the world of work is experiencing drastic changes. Some studies predict 45%-60% of all workers in Europe could see themselves replaced by automation before […]

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Workers rising: The push for city-supported worker coops is taking hold in these Bay Area cities

Posted on July 16, 2019July 16, 2019

When Rendell “Ren” Boguiren got a job in college at a South Bay pizzeria, he wasn’t expecting it would become a career. Now, as a part-owner in the business, he […]

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By a wide margin, Americans support “inclusive ownership funds”

Posted on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019

“Inclusive ownership funds” are an exciting new idea building momentum in policy circles on both sides of the Atlantic. The basic idea is to mandate and institutionalize a more equal distribution of corporate […]

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Employee Ownership Could Be Coming to a Company Near You

Posted on May 31, 2019May 31, 2019

Wealth inequality is gearing up to be a major issue in the 2020 election and one possible solution growing in popularity is the idea of employee ownership. Presidential hopefuls including […]

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Bernie Sanders backs 2 policies to dramatically shift corporate power to U.S. workers

Posted on May 29, 2019May 29, 2019

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will push new policies aimed at giving workers a greater ownership stake in companies, moves the 2020 presidential candidate is pitching as a dramatic transfer of […]

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Explosion of Interest in Worker Cooperatives Drives Economic Changes

Posted on April 26, 2019April 26, 2019

It’s been more than 10 years since the financial crisis of 2008, and working people are still being hammered by its effects — stagnating wages, a widening gap between the […]

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Remaking the Economy: The Critical Role of Advocacy

Posted on April 12, 2019April 12, 2019

Watch our Executive Director in this new video from Nonprofit Quarterly. What can and should be done to make public policy more conducive to a more democratic economy? That is the […]

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Una Nota Importante / Important Tax filing update for worker-owners

Posted on April 10, 2019August 19, 2021

* Continuar in Español * Tax season is in the air, and this year there is a tricky situation regarding the 1099-PATR, if your co-op distributes patronage. We’ve been working with […]

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How Massachusetts is working to get retiring business owners to let their employees take over

Posted on April 10, 2019April 10, 2019

As baby boomers get ready for retirement, there’s going to be a wave of small businesses that could be shut down or sold to big corporations. But there’s another way: […]

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Last Week Tonight features housing co-op work

Posted on April 8, 2019April 8, 2019

Watch this Last Week Tonight spotlight on manufactured housing, featuring the great work of members and partners like the Northwest Cooperative Development Center:

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Workers’ rights major theme at GDC 2019

Posted on April 4, 2019April 4, 2019

One of the more interesting developments to come out of Game Developers Conference 2019  (GDC) was a March 19 panel on the state of worker’s cooperatives and unionization in the […]

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Massachusetts Seeks to Avert Business Shutdowns by Boosting Employee Ownership

Posted on April 3, 2019April 3, 2019

According to Adam Vartikar, founder and chair of the advocacy group Working Wealth, Massachusetts has 42,000 small businesses whose owners are likely to retire in the next seven to 10 years, collectively […]

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Co-ops: A vision for workers to be their own bosses

Posted on April 2, 2019April 2, 2019

Las Visionarias is an all-female catering cooperative in Chicago where workers are also the owners of the business and share in its profits. Created by the Chicago Reporter

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CCCD announces 2019 Cooperative Conference

Posted on March 29, 2019March 29, 2019

The California Center for Cooperative Development will host its 10th annual co-op conference at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H St. in Sacramento, on Sunday, April 28, and Monday, […]

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Berkeley Sets the Bar for Municipal Support of Worker Cooperatives

Posted on March 25, 2019March 25, 2019

Last night, Berkeley City Council unanimously adopted a set of recommendations provided by the Sustainable Economies Law Center (Law Center) and a coalition of worker coop members and advocates. In […]

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The UMD Co-op may be closing, but worker cooperatives have a future

Posted on March 20, 2019April 2, 2019

Worker cooperatives don’t often receive the recognition they deserve as examples of alternative forms of economic organization. The Maryland Food Co-op has recently received some publicity after announcing it will […]

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