Co-ops are businesses owned and governed by their members. Co-ops can form as start-ups or by converting from an existing small business. Co-ops fall into a few general categories. Consumer […]
Read More >July 2020
Recording: Doing Well By Doing Good in Business: From COVID19 Crisis to Community Wealth-Building
This panel including Councilmember Jamie Gauthier, Jamila Medley of USFWC member the Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance, Beth McConnell of the PA Community Development Center and hosted by PA Representative Chris […]
Read More >The Former Deadspin People Explain How to Launch a Worker-Owned Media Co-op That Might Succeed
For the past five years, the media industry has been on a unionizing spree. This wave of worker empowerment—combined with the industry’s regular waves of layoffs, folding publications, and management […]
Read More >The Former Deadspin People Explain How to Launch a Worker-Owned Media Co-op That Might Succeed
For the past five years, the media industry has been on a unionizing spree. This wave of worker empowerment—combined with the industry’s regular waves of layoffs, folding publications, and management […]
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FREE Registration is now open for The Worker Co-op Conference, September 10-11
Para español, haga clic aquí 2020 is a year that demands action. We have seen cooperators meet this moment of economic, health, and social crisis head-on—prioritizing worker and community needs, […]
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Building Bridges, Not Walking on Backs
A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for COVID-19 The road to economic recovery should not be across women’s backs. COVID-19, and the measures being implemented to contain it, are deeply affecting […]
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Nominations are open for the USFWC Regional Board Directors
Para español, haga clic aquí Did you know that the USFWC board strategically represents regions across the country? Each year, the USFWC hosts an annual election for the Board of […]
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Recording | Understanding healthcare options for your co-op
Para español, continue hacia abajo. Slide deck here About the webinar: We’re introducing new options in the worker benefits program to make it easier for worker coops to access health […]
Read More >Cooperative Ownership: A Covid Recovery Strategy
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, […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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