The USFWC congratulates the Sustainable Economies Law Center and the Bay Area worker co-op community for their policy and advocacy efforts in Berkeley following the Berkeley City Council’s historic vote on […]
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Roots and Remedies recap from Cat Murcek, owner at Samamkaya Yoga and Scoliosis Collective
In July 2019, Cat Murcek, worker owner at Samamkaya Yoga and Scoliosis Collective attended the Roots and Remedies conference on behalf of the USFWC. At this year’s Roots & Remedies […]
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Webinar Recording: How to work with Small Business Development Centers
The USFWC Policy and Advocacy Council hosts quarterly public webinars on current topics. This quarter, we are focused on the resources you need to communicate with your local small business […]
Read More >By a wide margin, Americans support “inclusive ownership funds”
“Inclusive ownership funds” are an exciting new idea building momentum in policy circles on both sides of the Atlantic. The basic idea is to mandate and institutionalize a more equal distribution of corporate […]
Read More >Employee Ownership Could Be Coming to a Company Near You
Wealth inequality is gearing up to be a major issue in the 2020 election and one possible solution growing in popularity is the idea of employee ownership. Presidential hopefuls including […]
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Worker Coop Farm Peer Network Update May 2019
The Worker Co-op Farm Peer Network met this month to get to know each of the farms in our network on a deeper level, and to start to delve into […]
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Remaking the Economy: The Critical Role of Advocacy
Watch our Executive Director in this new video from Nonprofit Quarterly. What can and should be done to make public policy more conducive to a more democratic economy? That is the […]
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Una Nota Importante / Important Tax filing update for worker-owners
* Continuar in Español * Tax season is in the air, and this year there is a tricky situation regarding the 1099-PATR, if your co-op distributes patronage. We’ve been working with […]
Read More >How Massachusetts is working to get retiring business owners to let their employees take over
As baby boomers get ready for retirement, there’s going to be a wave of small businesses that could be shut down or sold to big corporations. But there’s another way: […]
Read More >Workers’ rights major theme at GDC 2019
One of the more interesting developments to come out of Game Developers Conference 2019 (GDC) was a March 19 panel on the state of worker’s cooperatives and unionization in the […]
Read More >Massachusetts Seeks to Avert Business Shutdowns by Boosting Employee Ownership
According to Adam Vartikar, founder and chair of the advocacy group Working Wealth, Massachusetts has 42,000 small businesses whose owners are likely to retire in the next seven to 10 years, collectively […]
Read More >The next egg: Investing our retirement savings in our local communities
if you’d like to learn more about that and about the nuts & bolts of SD IRAs and solo 401(k)s, join the webinar on April 11, 2019 at 11:30 am […]
Read More >Berkeley Pledges Support and Funding for Worker Co-ops
Last week, the Cheeseboard’s longtime home committed to a new strategy for fighting economic inequality and building the local economy: city support for worker cooperatives. The Berkeley City Council voted […]
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Webinar: Solidarity is a Verb: Why Worker Cooperatives Should Build Connections to Social Justice Movements | La solidaridad es un verbo
This session is presented in English and Spanish. Este webinar se presentó en inglés y español. Solidarity is a Verb: Why Worker Cooperatives Should Build Connections to Social Justice Movements […]
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Save the Dates for ECWD and WWCC! / ¡Aparta las fechas!
Join us at these upcoming worker co-op conferences and convenings, presented by the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives: EASTERN CONFERENCE FOR WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY Baltimore, Maryland Fall 2019 WESTERN WORKER […]
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A bus accident has claimed the lives of 18 NCBA CLUSA staff members in Uganda
A bus accident has claimed the lives of 18 NCBA CLUSA staff members in Uganda It is with heavy hearts that the USFWC team shares that NCBA CLUSA, the cross-sector […]
Read More >Support for Employee Ownership Climbs Nationally
Last year’s Main Street Employee Ownership Act, which authorized firms seeking to convert to employee ownership to access Small Business Administration partially-guaranteed loans of up to $5 million, was the first […]
Read More >New Program Helps Businesses, Non-Profits Create an Ownership Culture—Even If They’re Not Employee-Owned
The New Jersey/New York Center for Employee Ownership at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) and the Democracy at Work Institute today announced a new program to […]
Read More >A National Worker Co-op Financing Network Emerges
Connelly and others recognized that the community needed to take the lead in its own revival—or else risk having others develop the community, but in ways that promote gentrification and […]
Read More >The Co-op That’s Keeping Community Money Out of Big Banks
Connelly’s credit union is part of a strategy by a nonprofit consortium of investors, financial organizations, and community development groups known as the Financial Cooperative to set up locally controlled […]
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