Greater community control over local economies can help to stave off the predators that—as we learned during the 2008 crisis—start to circle the most marginalized populations when disaster strikes. Co-ownership […]
Read More >Johnson Introduces Bill to Help Businesses Restore Capital, Give Employees Stake in Business Success
“Unfortunately, many businesses of all sizes remain either totally or significantly shut down months into the coronavirus pandemic. PPP provided short-term financial support to small businesses, but now Congress needs […]
Read More >Empowered Employees Key to Digital Transformation
Employee ownership is the fuel that makes a digital transformation pilot succeed. The digital transformation needs to start by providing every technician affected by the new technologies a chance to […]
Read More >East Lothian’s Jerba Campervans speeds up profits and productivity
East Lothian firm Jerba Campervans has welcomed accelerated productivity and profit in its most recent financial year – saying it is very much seeing the benefits of employee ownership. Read […]
Read More >Small businesses are struggling. Workers can be the solution.
Whether for those that were spared the worst or those on the edge of survival, the most plausible option for saving businesses and jobs is often an employee buyout. Ideally, […]
Read More >Video: Artists in a COVID Economy
Hear from USFWC Staff member and worker-owner of Obvious Agency Daniel Park in this artist-led conversation on how artists can manage a self-sustaining practice amid uncertainty and rapidly changing […]
Read More >Congress votes to extend PPP deadline to August 8
On June 30, with hours remaining before the Paycheck Protection Program application was set to close, the U.S. Senate passed a measure to extend the program deadline to August 8. […]
Read More >When Bosses Shared Their Profits
In December 1916, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a report on profit-sharing, suggesting it as a way to reduce the “frequent and often violent disputes” between employers and workers, […]
Read More >CICOPA General Assembly
Para español, haga clíc aquí Since the ICA Congress in Seoul, Korea, has been postponed to next year, the 2020 CICOPA General Assembly won’t be able to gather physically, however […]
Read More >Democracy in Child Care: A Conversation with Esteban Kelly on Child Care Worker Ownership
Joe Waters interviews Esteban Kelly of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives on the advantages of worker cooperatives for advancing a more equitable child care industry. Read more at https://www.capitasocial.org/cooperatives-blog/2020/6/19/democracy-in-child-care-a-conversation-with-esteban-kelly-on-child-care-worker-ownership
Read More >