A short, practical guide for those considering worker owned cooperatives, made by GRITtv & TESA, the Toolbox for Education and Social Action. Featuring conversations with the USFWC’s Executive Director Esteban […]
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Ways to recognize May Day, today and every day
Today we recognize May Day and labor movements around the world, particularly the worker-owned and democratically governed businesses that make up our membership. New to worker co-operatives? Listen to this […]
Read More >U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Tours Employee-Owned Business and Meets with Workers in Stevens Point
Senator Baldwin’s Worker Owned Wealth Act aims to promote employee ownership business models like Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) or worker cooperatives that give workers a seat at the table and help […]
Read More >Commentary: Bill would help retiring business owners transfer ownership to workers
As with Susanne Ward, employee ownership can often provide business owners the best chance to secure their retirement, while sustaining the jobs and economic activity our communities depend on. In […]
Read More >USFWC Board Member Mai Nguyen named in the “Grist 50 2018” List
Meet the people who are cooking up the boldest, most ambitious solutions to humanity’s biggest challenges. We like to call these forward-thinking phenoms “Fixers.” They are leaders who will actually […]
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Workers to Owners: The Story of A Child’s Place
The story of A Child’s Place, a childcare business in New York, produced by our sister organization, the Democracy at Work Institute
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The Namasté Solar Difference – An Employee-Owned Business as a Force for Good
Namasté Solar is a very different kind of solar company, and how we’re built from the ground up to deliver a better quality to our customers as we achieve […]
Read More >Worker Ownership and The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2018
The report on the March 23rd Omnibus Appropriations Act includes language on worker ownership. Last Friday, President Trump signed into law the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018“. Why is this special […]
Read More >House Committee on Small Business passes the Main Street Employee Ownership Act with bipartisan support
“I am proud that our Committee came together to pass legislation to help small businesses in all sectors,” said Small Business House Committee Ranking Member Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY). […]
Read More >Landmark Employee Ownership Bills Advance in Congress without Dissent
“Two bills on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) have passed without dissent in the Small Business Committees in the House and the Senate,” writes Lee Barney in Plan Sponsor. Both bills, he adds, […]
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WCNC 2018 named one of the best social justice and equity conferences in 2018 by Beneficial State Foundation
Who doesn’t love a good social justice conference? Inspo, healthy optimism, new friends?! We social justice conference groupies are in luck because 2018 is optimal for justice-themed conferences across the […]
Read More >Listen to this podcast, Everything Co-op with our board member, Mai Nguyen
Vernon Oakes interviews Kim Koontz, and Mai Nguyen, of the California Center for Cooperative Development and USFWC Board Member. Everything Co-op is a Talk Show that airs on WOL 1450 AM, […]
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Bicycle-powered compost co-operative may get rolling this year
The new year could see a new Greenfield co-op off to a roll, after three years of development in a “think tank” at the Franklin County Jail. It’s a worker-owned […]
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A worker-owned cooperative turns a profit
Image via Oregon Business A few weeks after the Little Devil and Whitewater fires almost destroyed the Breitenbush Hot Springs Retreat and Conference Center, I made my first pilgrimage to the resort. It was an […]
Read More >Baby Boomer Retirement Means Now’s the Time for Worker-Owned Businesses
While conversations and early work on converting more existing businesses into worker-owned companies are picking up in cities around the country, one group in Detroit has decided it doesn’t have […]
Read More >Can Employee Ownership Hold Back a Tsunami of Small Business Closures?
A “silver tsunami” of Baby Boom business owners, who employ 24.7 million, will retire in the next decade or two. Advocates through both policy and nonprofit technical assistance centers promote […]
Read More >Ariel Guarco, from Argentina, elected president of the International Co-operative Alliance
Ariel Guarco from Argentina has been elected president of the International Co-operative Alliance. The election took place at the International Co-operative Alliance’s General Assembly, a biennial event, held this year […]
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We “hiked the hill” with the American Sustainable Business Council
This week the American Sustainable Business Council held its annual #SustyBiz Conference, bringing together sustainable and socially-minded businesses from across the country together to talk policy. The USFWC has maintained […]
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