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 […]
Read More >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 […]
Read More >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 […]
Read More >New “State of the Co-op Economy” report counts 40,000 co-ops in U.S.
by Elizabeth Lechleitner/NCBA CLUSA “Measuring the impact of cooperatives is much more than measuring their total employment, total revenue, or the total number of establishments and businesses, but it’s a […]
Read More >Worker co-op bill means more Rhode Islanders can own businesses
By Aran Valente on October 23, 2017 On September 19, 2017 the Rhode Island General Assembly passed Senator Donna Nesslebush’s Senate Bill 0676 Sub A and Representative Shelby Maldonado’s House […]
Read More >Fuel the movement – Participate in the 2017 Worker Co-op Enterprise Census
Together, let’s show off the worker cooperative movement The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives and the Democracy At Work Institute invites you to participate in our annual census to study […]
Read More >Blueprint for The Most Radical City on the Planet
Image via huffingtonpost.com In July 2017, 34 year old Chokwe Antar Lumumba was sworn in as Mayor of Jackson Mississippi. He soon announced that the city was going to be “the most radical […]
Read More >Meet USFWC’s newly elected board members
To all of our members: thank you all for the strong participation in our 2017 elections. Democratic voice is the keystone of our sector and drives the spirit of the […]
Read More >NEW CUCI Co-op in Childcare! Introducing Nanny Share
CUCI has begun investigating the possibilities of creating a multi-stakeholder cooperative (ie.worker and parent owned) in the childcare industry. We have started this work by doing a small pilot nanny […]
Read More >Worker-Owned Businesses Get More Support From D.C.
“Federal officials and policymakers are putting more emphasis on worker-ownership of businesses. This support comes at a time when the cooperative model — a business owned and controlled by its workers, who […]
Read More >Hurricane Harvey – How you can help
The effects of Hurricane Harvey will be felt for a long time, and we encourage all of our members and community to continue supporting organizations on the ground, especially those […]
Read More >Nurses Join Forces With Labor Union to Launch Healthcare Platform Cooperative
“This the first time that our union has had a worker cooperative partner … we had to be slow and careful in a way we couldn’t be with a different […]
Read More >Unions and Worker Co-ops, Old Allies, Are Joining Forces Again
“From the early days of the labor movement, as John Curl makes clear in his excellent book For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and […]
Read More >Congress, we urge you to support immigrant workers — The U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives denounces the decision to end DACA
This week the Trump administration moved to cancel the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. We call for Congress to preserve this program, which grants temporary work permits and […]
Read More >After raising more than $9,000, the Maryland Co-op is back — with mac ‘n cheese (PS, there’s still time to donate!)
“Immediately … we got a huge amount of support from the community,” said Chris Moulson, a worker-owner at the Co-op for the past four years. “People came out left and […]
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