How the USFWC used a global spotlight to advance worker ownership—from the United Nations to local policy wins The 2025 International Year of Cooperatives is coming to a close. The […]
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2025 Union Co-op Symposium, Honoring the Year of the Cooperative
The 7th Union Co-op Symposium, Honoring the Year of the Cooperative October 17–18, 2025 | Cincinnati, Ohio Theme: From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Building a Stronger Community In a moment when […]
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Momentum Builds: Cities Declare 2025 The Year Of Co-Ops
Cooperators are leveraging the U.N.’s spotlight on cooperatives to begin or expand regional commitment to worker cooperative enterprises. Olympia, WA has declared 2025 the Year of Cooperatives, joining five other […]
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Kelly Urges UN to Recognize Cooperatives as Key Actors in a Fair, Sustainable Future
USFWC Director Calls On United Nations to Explicitly Recognize Cooperatives in the World Social Summit Declaration Full remarks delivered by Esteban Kelly, Executive Director of the U.S. Federation of Worker […]
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Philadelphia declares 2025 the Year of the Cooperative
It is official! 2025 is the Year of the Cooperative in Philadelphia, the first US city to sign onto the UN’s resolution for 2025 to be the International Year of […]
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International Year of the Co-op Book Club
To celebrate the International Year of the Co-op, the COWOP Coalition and friends are reading selected chapters of The Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management, edited by Jerome Nikolai […]
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