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    Worker Co-ops in the News

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

  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • This Ride-Hailing App Alternative Is Owned By The Drivers

    December 27, 2021
    Drivers say they’re being pushed into poverty by rideshare giants like Uber and Lyft that made false promises about wages while loading them with expenses. Now they’re starting a rideshare …
  • Using Cooperatives to Empower Formerly Incarcerated People—An L.A. Story

    December 27, 2021
    Throughout the world, cooperatives are engaging people in prison and individuals who have been released from the carceral system to create dignified work that benefits the individual and the broader …
  • Worker-Owned Home Care Co-ops Growing Despite Challenging Industry Environment

    December 27, 2021
    Benchmarking survey shows coops offer better jobs, resulting in less turnover Worker-owned home care cooperatives continue to grow impressively year by year, according to the third annual survey done by …
  • Why Worker-Owned Food Co-Ops Are Suddenly Hot In The Rise And Grind Era

    November 17, 2021
    Since opening its doors more than a decade ago, Proof Bakery in Atwater Village has become a pastry powerhouse. Every weekend, a line of hungry customers stretches out the door and onto …
  • Worker-owned thrift store opening in Hamtramck reimagines what second-hand shopping should be

    August 13, 2021
    That’s what Public Thrift, opening in September on Joseph Campau, is inviting its customers into. The woman-owned, Black-owned, and queer-owned second-hand shop is radically reimagining the environment, offerings, and relationship …
  • Canada’s small businesses could be saved by converting them to co-operatives

    August 13, 2021
    Most of Canada’s 1.2 million small- and medium-sized enterprises have been affected by COVID-19. A substantial number of them remain heavily indebted as pandemic restrictions ease, while workforce shortages and …
  • Evergreen Cooperatives helps companies shift to co-ops, share profits with workers

    August 13, 2021
    The idea of a career and work day has changed a lot since the pandemic started in March 2020 and that’s already making many employees rethink what they want and …
  • Employees purchase iconic Maine T-shirt company

    May 13, 2021
    Nearly two years ago, Liberty Graphics employees began to talk to Opper about the potential of buying the company through a worker cooperative. Of the 25 current employees, lots have …
  • White Electric reopens as Rhode Island’s only cooperatively run coffee shop

    May 13, 2021
    “No one individual is going to get rich, and that’s the way we want it,” Chassaing said. “We do want to ensure living wages though, and we’re confident that without …
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