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    Worker Co-ops in the News

    Articles about the worker co-op movement, nationally and internationally.

  • How Worker Ownership Builds Community Wealth and a More Just Society

    February 6, 2023
    Arecent help-wanted ad for a laundry worker in Cleveland contained some unusual language, asking prospective candidates: “Have you ever wanted to work for a company that is 90 percent employee-owned? …
  • Former Darwin’s Workers to Launch Co-op Coffee Shop

    February 6, 2023
    Following the closure of all four locations of Darwin’s Ltd. late last year, a small group of former employees has announced plans to open a worker-owned cafe at the former …
  • We Should Demand Democratic Workplaces But What Does That Mean?

    January 27, 2023
    Organizing our workplaces isn’t just about wages, hours, working conditions, and obtaining rights non-unionized workers lack—such as the right to have a steward present during disciplinary proceedings. It’s also about …
  • Local artists form worker cooperative to purchase Opolis, preventing closure

    December 7, 2022
    Local Norman creatives have joined together as a cooperative to buy downtown Norman music venue Opolis to keep the business from closing. “We are overjoyed that a group of some …
  • Advocating in a Fractured System

    December 1, 2022
     What’s particularly striking for me is being part of Cooperative Home Care and having this dual identity of both a home care agency and a worker-owned cooperative. There was …
  • Owning the Means An Exploration of New Orleans Worker Co-ops

    November 16, 2022
    Thanars heard a new bar and restaurant called Velveteen was hiring, and went in for an interview. While she was there, the owners explained that the stylish spot—on the corner …
  • Cast your ballot today for the 2022 Regional Board Elections

    September 22, 2022
    Haga clic aquí para leer esta entrada en español  Did you know that the USFWC board strategically represents regions across the country? Each year, the USFWC hosts an annual election …
  • How Small Community Investors Helped Get a Boston Food Co-op Off the Ground

    July 27, 2022
    Read more on Next City
  • Worker’s Tap Has the City’s Best Activist Library on Its Top Floor

    July 13, 2022
    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 …
  • Inside the Brooklyn Packers’ Vision for a Community-Based Micro Food Hub

    July 11, 2022
    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 …
  • How a Worker-Owned Business Model in Spain Is Keeping Inequality in Check

    June 30, 2022
    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 …
  • Worker Retention in Homecare: Could Cooperatives Be the Solution?

    June 15, 2022
    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 …
  • Worker Co-ops In DC Provide Mutual Aid to Stranded Asylum-Seekers

    June 6, 2022
    Para leer esta entrada en español haga clic aquí During our Spring Member Meeting, Bianca Vazquez of Beloved Community Incubator shared how immigrant-led worker cooperatives are supporting recent migrant families from Colombia, …
  • Brightly, first U.S. franchised immigrant co-op, expands in New York and Philadelphia

    June 2, 2022
    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 …
  • Labor secretary meets with companies to bolster job quality as a record number of Americans quit

    May 20, 2022
    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 …
  • What If We Owned It?

    May 17, 2022
    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 …
  • How a majority BIPOC worker co-op is disrupting the field of therapy

    May 10, 2022
    Read more on PRISM
  • Safeguarding Our Local Economies: Cooperative businesses on display at RI State House

    May 5, 2022
    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 …
  • Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority could receive $1.2M in city funding

    April 28, 2022
    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 …
  • Employee-owned businesses foster healthier local economies

    April 28, 2022
    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 …
  • Riding the Wave: Cooperative Conversion and the Silver Tsunami

    April 28, 2022
    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 …
  • Latest Worker Co-op Survey Shows More Co-ops but Fewer Workers

    April 28, 2022
    Bi-annual census shows growing number of regions where worker co-ops flourishing Read more on Fifty by Fifty .org Employee Ownership News
  • How worker cooperatives shift power to workers

    April 26, 2022
    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 …
  • New Arrivals Restructure 150-Year-Old Marshfield Village Store as a Worker-Owned Cooperative

    March 21, 2022
    The Marshfield Village Store has been a mainstay in town since it was built in 1868, serving up coffee, sandwiches and conversation. This year, while the menu will stay the same, the …
  • Virtual event touts benefits of worker-owned cooperatives

    January 28, 2022
    State Rep. Paul Mark teamed up with state Sen. Julian Cyr and the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives this week to host an event to tout the benefits of worker-owned …
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