On July 9, the full Santa Clara City Council and City Staff hosted a learning session on worker cooperatives called: Presentation on the Worker Cooperative Business Model. Kirk and Marguerite […]
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$100,000 dedicated to worker cooperative development in Berkeley
The USFWC congratulates the Sustainable Economies Law Center and the Bay Area worker co-op community for their policy and advocacy efforts in Berkeley following the Berkeley City Council’s historic vote on […]
Read More >Explosion of Interest in Worker Cooperatives Drives Economic Changes
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 […]
Read More >Jarrett announces bid for Ward 5 council seat in Northampton
Alex Jarrett says he’s hopeful about the city’s future, and he’s running for the Ward 5 seat on the City Council to enact policies that will keep it on that […]
Read More >Co-ops: A vision for workers to be their own bosses
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
Read More >Building Bridges: Spectrum Cable Strikers Propose Forming A Workers’ Cooperative To Take Over The Cable Franchise
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 […]
Read More >Worcester co-op prints for progressives such as Warren, Biden, Ocasio-Cortez
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 […]
Read More >What if Workers Owned Their Workplaces?
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, […]
Read More >Changing its tune: Downtown Sounds to become worker-owned cooperative after retirement of founder Joe Blumenthal
“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 […]
Read More >Fashion production co-op run by refugee, immigrant women to open in Chicago
“…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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