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Worker Co-op Stories

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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#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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A Worker Co-op Movement Emerges in Los Angeles

Posted on August 31, 2018September 3, 2018

Collective Avenue Coffee is moving from pop-up to brick and mortar business as part of COOP LA, a 10-person collective venture of four co-located cooperative businesses. Along with the coffee […]

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A New Push For Employee Ownership in Chicago

Posted on August 31, 2018September 3, 2018

“These efforts are all driven by the notion that when employees, particularly disadvantaged populations, become owners of businesses, that will lift them out of poverty,” says Lane. “They’ll be given […]

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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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