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Worker Co-op Stories

Building Bridges: Spectrum Cable Strikers Propose Forming A Workers’ Cooperative To Take Over The Cable Franchise

Posted on March 18, 2019March 28, 2019

Nevertheless despite the toll the strike has taken on these intrepid workers keep on keeping on, and have even, with the support of their union been exploring the creation of […]

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Worcester co-op prints for progressives such as Warren, Biden, Ocasio-Cortez

Posted on March 17, 2019March 28, 2019

On the top floor of an old industrial building at 41 Jackson St., steps from a factory where garment workers a hundred years ago made women’s corsets, a printers’ cooperative […]

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What if Workers Owned Their Workplaces?

Posted on March 11, 2019March 11, 2019

Can good values be good business, too? For generations, the cooperative movement has been answering with a resounding “Yes!” After a surge of entrepreneurial fervor following the 2007 economic collapse, […]

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Changing its tune: Downtown Sounds to become worker-owned cooperative after retirement of founder Joe Blumenthal

Posted on March 8, 2019March 11, 2019

“It’s really an institution in the community,” Blumenthal said this week. Blumenthal, 70, opened the store in 1976, with no musical background. Yet his father told him that if he […]

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Fashion production co-op run by refugee, immigrant women to open in Chicago

Posted on February 28, 2019February 28, 2019

“…Now, Mercy — who asked that we not use her last name — is one of three founding members of Blue Tin Production, a fashion production co-op run by immigrant […]

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A National Worker Co-op Financing Network Emerges

Posted on December 6, 2018January 2, 2019

Connelly and others recognized that the community needed to take the lead in its own revival—or else risk having others develop the community, but in ways that promote gentrification and […]

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The Co-op That’s Keeping Community Money Out of Big Banks

Posted on December 4, 2018January 2, 2019

Connelly’s credit union is part of a strategy by a nonprofit consortium of investors, financial organizations, and community development groups known as the Financial Cooperative to set up locally controlled […]

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Nonprofit helps employees take hold of reins as business owners retire

Posted on November 29, 2018December 13, 2018

“I’ve been approaching retirement for a long time,” Adams said with a chuckle. “I couldn’t imagine being 80 and carrying on at the same level, but how else do you […]

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This new fund will help retiring baby boomers turn their businesses into worker co-ops

Posted on November 14, 2018November 14, 2018

In May, the Evergreen Cooperatives, a network of worker-owned businesses in Cleveland, took over operations of a laundry facility owned by the Cleveland Clinic. On the surface, it was a […]

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New Cleveland Fund Will Acquire Businesses and Sell Them Back to Workers

Posted on November 14, 2018November 14, 2018

Tameka Thomas had returned to society after a five-year prison sentence, and a month after her release, she landed a job with Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland with help from a re-entry transition […]

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Worker Ownership Initiative Launched by Nonprofit Lender in Nation’s Capital

Posted on November 7, 2018November 7, 2018

Last week, a nonprofit community development financial institution (CDFI), the Washington Area Community Investment Fund (WACIF), which has operated in the nation’s capital since 1987, launched its DC Employee Ownership Initiative to help existing worker-owned business […]

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Coalition Launches Rural Employee Ownership Transition Initiative in Maine

Posted on November 6, 2018November 6, 2018

Two months ago, NPQ profiled an initiative supported by US Department of Agriculture (USDA) grants to encourage retiring business owners to sell their businesses to their employees in Oregon, Washington. Now a […]

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Worker Ownership Initiative Launched by Nonprofit Lender in Nation’s Capital

Posted on November 6, 2018December 14, 2018

The initiative will also provide lending support not just to businesses that convert to employee ownership, but to businesses that launch as worker cooperatives. An example cited at the forum […]

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Listen to the Upstream Podcast on Worker Cooperatives — Islands within a Sea of Capitalism

Posted on October 30, 2018October 30, 2018

Listen to the Upstream Podcast on Worker Cooperatives — Islands within a Sea of Capitalism In the second episode of the series on worker cooperatives, Upstream builds on the conversation […]

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Philly wants to teach retiring business owners how to sell — to their workers

Posted on October 29, 2018October 29, 2018

At least 20 percent of the stores on the corridor are owned and operated by black people who aren’t immigrants. The only corridor that rivals it in terms of percentage […]

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A co-op grocery comes to a Dayton food desert

Posted on October 18, 2018November 19, 2018

On the corner of Salem Avenue and Superior Street in West Dayton sits a vacant building with signs advertising a former artist supply and picture framing shop. By the end […]

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More than a coffee shop, Collective Avenue co-op is a nurturing place for the Lynwood community

Posted on October 17, 2018October 17, 2018

Afternoons at Collective Avenue Coffee are about as far removed from a typical third-wave coffee shop as you can get. The worker-owned cooperative cafe, founded by Kateri Gutierrez and Jonathan […]

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2018 Co-ops and Cooperators of the Year

Posted on October 9, 2018October 10, 2018

Each year, the USFWC recognizes standout cooperators and co-ops that embolden our movement and lead the way toward workplace democracy. Chosen by our board of directors, with these recognitions we […]

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Worker Co-ops Catch on in Philadelphia

Posted on October 1, 2018October 1, 2018

Last fall, Colombia native Luis Eduardo Lozano and four other immigrant day laborers, tired of the indignities of scant, irregular hours and wage theft from employers, formalized the PWA Handymen […]

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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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