Several Portland pubs double as bookstores. Over at Worker’s Tap, a new, worker-owned beer bar located near the corner of Southeast 12th Avenue and Burnside, they’re doing things differently. Co-owner […]
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Inside the Brooklyn Packers’ Vision for a Community-Based Micro Food Hub
The worker-owned, Black-led food cooperative quickly shifted their operation to provide emergency food during the height of the pandemic. Now, they are looking to transition to a longer-term vision of […]
Read More >How a Worker-Owned Business Model in Spain Is Keeping Inequality in Check
An increasing number of workers and business owners in the US are looking to a small town in northern Spain as a model to tackle wealth and income inequality. Read […]
Read More >Worker Retention in Homecare: Could Cooperatives Be the Solution?
The current and future worker shortage is fueled in large part by a problem well known to the industry: high turnover. One underexplored solution to this problem may be homecare […]
Read More >Brightly, first U.S. franchised immigrant co-op, expands in New York and Philadelphia
Salvation, for Aguilar, came from a perhaps unlikely place: a business model best known to fans of McDonald’s. She’s now a franchisee. Two years ago, alongside nine fellow immigrants, Aguilar […]
Read More >Labor secretary meets with companies to bolster job quality as a record number of Americans quit
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh met with companies on Friday to discuss how the private sector can improve job quality, as a record number of employees in the United States are […]
Read More >What If We Owned It?
The story of Black co-ops and alternative economics in the United States is one of violence and persecution—but it is also a story of hope and determination. The history of […]
Read More >How a majority BIPOC worker co-op is disrupting the field of therapy
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Read More >Safeguarding Our Local Economies: Cooperative businesses on display at RI State House
Fuerza Laboral and the P.O.W.E.R. Network hosted a fair at the Rhode Island State House on Tuesday featuring many of the business cooperatives, from a host of different industries, offering […]
Read More >Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority could receive $1.2M in city funding
Pittsburgh City Council is poised to allocate $1.2 million to the city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority to fund several programs. The investment would include $150,000 for the Pittsburgh Task Force on […]
Read More >Employee-owned businesses foster healthier local economies
At Kaiser Permanente, we know that health, economic opportunity, and wealth are linked, and small businesses create vital jobs and thriving local economies. During the last 2 recessions, employee-owned enterprises […]
Read More >Riding the Wave: Cooperative Conversion and the Silver Tsunami
Just as small businesses are closing at higher rates than ever, so are workers leaving their jobs in unprecedented numbers. Remote opportunities, safety measures, and a shifting personal values have […]
Read More >Latest Worker Co-op Survey Shows More Co-ops but Fewer Workers
Bi-annual census shows growing number of regions where worker co-ops flourishing Read more on Fifty by Fifty .org Employee Ownership News
Read More >How worker cooperatives shift power to workers
How we work and how we think of labor has drastically shifted during the pandemic. The need for more power and agency in the workplace is why so many workers […]
Read More >Pittsburgh Hosts Nation’s First Citywide Task Force on Employee Ownership
PA – Pittsburgh kicked off the nation’s first citywide task force by hosting a meeting on employee ownership on Sept. 5 at Chatham University. Pittsburgh created the task force on […]
Read More >Black History Month Has Always Been About the Future
The celebration of Black History Month was always intended to be about the future. When Carter G. Woodson first launched the event in 1926, it was with the expectation that […]
Read More >Recording: Get Your Co-op Ready for Tax Season 2021
It’s tax time – where do we start? This webinar will help businesses to navigate tax season, with an emphasis on the particular needs for worker cooperatives when doing their […]
Read More >Grabación: Prepare su Cooperativa para la Temporada de Impuestos del 2021
Este es un taller especialmente dirigido para las cooperativas de inmigrantes estructuradas como LLCs o Sociedades de Responsabilidad Limitada. Aquí podremos revisar diferentes temas que les servirán como una guía […]
Read More >On the Laura Flanders Show, USFWC Executive Director Esteban Kelly Talks Cooperative Economic Lessons from Black Feminist Leaders for Today
Timely and thorough conversation on The Laura Flanders Show how we can learn the lessons of post-Great Depression economic recovery. USFWC Executive Director, Esteban Kelly brings to the forth the […]
Read More >Co-ops Not Cops: A Conversation about the Impact of Co-ops in Abolition Work
A conversation on the impact of co-ops in abolition work organized by the Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO). Panelists *Morning Star Gali – Project Director for Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples, […]
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