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Worker Co-op Stories

Blue Tin Production: Clothing Manufacturing Co-op Run by Refugee & Immigrant Women

Posted on September 10, 2019September 10, 2019
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Santa Clara City Council supports worker cooperatives

Posted on July 17, 2019July 17, 2019

  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

Posted on July 16, 2019July 16, 2019

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 […]

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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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Jarrett announces bid for Ward 5 council seat in Northampton

Posted on April 22, 2019April 22, 2019

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 […]

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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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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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