Our Member Councils and Peer Networks are shaping the future of the worker co-op movement in the U.S. Here are the latest highlights from some of our Councils & Networks: The Union Co-ops …
USFWC members join the REI workers union for a rally in New York to demand that REI negotiate in good faith with their workers and bargain a fair contract before …
SAN JOSE, CA — I was fresh out of high school when COVID hit, and there was a tighter leash on job opportunities. I had heard horror stories from other …
An old movement to grow employee ownership is getting new life, with the goal of shrinking wealth inequality. The concept isn’t unprecedented — not at all, really. “Collective ownership is …
El Paso-based Accent Landscape Contractors is now a fully employee-owned enterprise. Apis & Heritage Capital Partners recently converted both Accent and Apex Plumbing in Denver to employee-owned businesses. Read more …
Co-ops are a business structure, and like any business, they require hard work to be successful. They are unique in that they bring individuals together to solve issues they wouldn’t …
BELMONT — Owning a business is different from being an employee. For about a year, employees of The Home Beautiful have experienced the joys and hard work of ownership. The …
When Julieta Aquino leaves for work in the New York City neighbourhood of East Harlem, she does so on her own terms. She gets to decide when she works and …
The co-op has seen a surge in interest during the pandemic. Why it matters: Advocates see the alternative business model of worker ownership as a path out of income inequality, …
Clear-eyed appraisal of all possible outcomes—both good and bad—is crucial for strategic progress towards social transformation. Read more on Non Profit Quarterly
In a northeast corner of Los Angeles, not far from where I live, there’s a neighborhood called Atwater Village, and in that neighborhood an enterprise called the Proof Bakery does …
“It’s nice to know I am part of positive change in the world,” said O’Brien, the company’s founder, general manager and one of its owner-workers. The printing enterprise is a …
Justine Belle Lambright wants you to question everything you know about wine — where it comes from, whose labor produced it, and who gets to define it. Read more on …
More Americans are saying this is no longer acceptable. Working people want to build stability and plan for the future of their families. They want to be hopeful about their …
Rather than selling to an out-of-state buyer or shuttering the business, O’Donal decided to keep things close to home. He reached out to the Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) to explore …
An Oakland bakery founded by the woman who was killed during a brazen robbery earlier this year has become a worker-owned cooperative. Angel Cakes Bakery employees said they became a …
A self-described “political lefty,” Dally pondered the notion of converting the two-practice business to a worker cooperative — selling it to the employees, who would own and run it following …
”The apartheid system, the siege of a people for 17 years with no will to live, is the root of all this,’ restaurateur Reem Assil said of the air, land …
Rural cooperatives are the backbone of this nation’s many critical infrastructure projects and provide essential services that people in the U.S. rely on to thrive. Cooperatives are people-centered enterprises owned, …
Nearly a dozen early-career solar energy system installers are working to change the terms of their labor. Graduates of a growing workforce development program created by Manhattan non-profit WE ACT …