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Webinar: USFWC Board of Directors Roles and Responsibilities

Posted on July 31, 2019August 1, 2019

This session is presented in English. Este webinar se presentó en inglés. USFWC Board of Directors Roles and Responsibilities is a fundamental board training that covers the governance obligations and fiduciary […]

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Webinar Recording: How to work with Small Business Development Centers

Posted on June 11, 2019February 11, 2020

The USFWC Policy and Advocacy Council hosts quarterly public webinars on current topics. This quarter, we are focused on the resources you need to communicate with your local small business […]

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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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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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Co-op Hour Conversions to the Worker Co-op Business Model

Posted on March 12, 2019August 31, 2022

  Co-op Hour is the USFWC’s bi-monthly online, interactive gathering dedicated to exploring a specific topic within the worker cooperative movement, featuring worker-owners and experts in the field. This video […]

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Webinar: Solidarity is a Verb: Why Worker Cooperatives Should Build Connections to Social Justice Movements | La solidaridad es un verbo

Posted on February 25, 2019August 2, 2019

This session is presented in English and Spanish. Este webinar se presentó en inglés y español. Solidarity is a Verb: Why Worker Cooperatives Should Build Connections to Social Justice Movements […]

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Webinar: All About the Workers: the first national study of the worker co-op experience

Posted on February 8, 2019February 8, 2019

Watch This Webinar “I am living my full purpose in my work.  I feel a deep sense of camaraderie with my co-workers.  I feel agency without the overwhelm of total responsibility. […]

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Access to Capital: Borrowing Options for Worker Co-ops

Posted on November 28, 2018November 28, 2018

    Hear from a panel of cooperative lenders about the finance options you have access to as coops and as members. Guest Presenters include: The Working World, Kiva, The […]

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Webinar: A Historic Moment: Celebrating the Passage of the Main Street Employee Ownership Act

Posted on September 25, 2018October 19, 2018

Recorded on 08-27-2018 The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives and Democracy at Work Institute are thrilled to announce that the Main Street Employee Ownership Act was signed into law on […]

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#WCNC18 Plenary: Shaping the Future of Work

Posted on September 20, 2018October 19, 2018

Speakers: Jenny Ramirez, HR Director for California Harvesters, an employee trust farm labor company in California’s Central Valley Tomás Durán, President of Concerned Capital in Los Angeles, which works to […]

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#WCNC18 Plenary: Cooperative Connections to Movements

Posted on September 19, 2018October 18, 2018

  Speakers: Amit Mistry, The Movement Cooperative Lolita Andrada Lledo, Pilipino Workers Center Manuel Villanueva, ROC-LA Kim Gibson, Buffalo SEIU Flor Rodriguez, CLEAN Carwash Worker Center Worker ownership is a […]

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#WCNC18 Plenary: Stories that Move Us: How Worker Co-ops Are Organizing Our Economic Power

Posted on September 15, 2018October 19, 2018

Speakers: Eulalio Guevara, A Yard and a Half Landscaping Cooperative Rebecca Koehler, Cooperative Care Adrionna Fike, Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC) Worker owners will share their stories of […]

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Workers to Owners: The Story of Metis Construction

Posted on June 17, 2018June 17, 2018

Metis Construction of Seattle is making its employees owners as it grows, building ownership-quality construction jobs. One in three small business owners will retire in the next fifteen years. This […]

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Workers to Owners: The Story of A Yard and a Half

Posted on June 15, 2018June 15, 2018

A Yard and a Half Landscaping employees bought the business from a retiring founder. Now it’s a thriving worker cooperative in Boston. One in three small business owners will retire […]

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Worker Co-ops–A solution for an economy in crisis

Posted on June 8, 2018June 8, 2018

  We are standing at a pivotal time for the political and economic future of the country, and worker cooperatives are a solution to many of country’s issues. These businesses […]

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Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time

Posted on May 21, 2018February 6, 2019

A short, practical guide for those considering worker owned cooperatives, made by GRITtv & TESA, the Toolbox for Education and Social Action. Featuring conversations with the USFWC’s Executive Director Esteban […]

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Worker Owned: In Their Own Words

Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018
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This Way Out: A Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative

Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018
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Shift Change Preview

Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018
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A Child's Place

Workers to Owners: The Story of A Child’s Place

Posted on March 28, 2018April 27, 2018

The story of A Child’s Place, a childcare business in New York, produced by our sister organization, the Democracy at Work Institute

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