“This the first time that our union has had a worker cooperative partner … we had to be slow and careful in a way we couldn’t be with a different employer,” says Ra Criscitiello, research coordinator at SEIU-UHW West. “The union has a collective bargaining agreement with the co-op … but in other respects, it’s way more collaborative than any other relationship the union has.”
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