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    Worker Co-ops in the News

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

  • Washington adopts new program to help businesses become employee-owned

    April 20, 2023
    Washington lawmakers want to make it easier to form businesses without bosses. They passed a bill Wednesday that provides support and resources for companies seeking to become employee-owned. A few …
  • Chicago Solidarity Collective Wins $2.25 Million To Hire Formerly Incarcerated Black Chicagoans Into Workers’ Co-Ops

    April 20, 2023
    The Chicago Solidarity Collective — a joint effort by Urban Growers Collective, ChiFresh Kitchen, the Women’s Justice Institute, Grow Greater Englewood and Upside Down Consulting — won $2.25 million from …
  • Chicago collective gets $2.25 million award from JPMorgan Chase

    April 20, 2023
    Chicago Solidarity Collective will get $2.25 million from JPMorgan Chase for an initiative aimed at advancing wealth creation for formerly incarcerated Black women by offering them training and employment in …
  • EAT Brings Farm-Fresh Food to Downtown Catskill

    April 19, 2023
    EAT is a worker-owned cooperative grocery, kitchen, and café providing fresh, local, or organic foods to downtown Catskill. We also offer farmers access to our commercial kitchen and dining spaces, …
  • Four Young Worcester Entrepreneurs Chosen for Competition in Spain

    April 19, 2023
     Four young entrepreneurs from Worcester are among the finalists in the Mondragon City Challenge, an international competition that challenges youth from around the world to create a business project …
  • Gov. Polis Announces Four New Employee-Owned Companies, Pioneering New Workforce Trend in Colorado

    April 17, 2023
    Today, the Polis Administration and the Colorado Employee Ownership Office, housed within the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT), announced four new businesses transitioning to employee-ownership with …
  • SEWA sets out priorities for women’s co-ops ahead of national policy for sector

    February 6, 2023
    Read more on Co-op News
  • 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 …
  • ‘Bicycles kind of saved my life.’ Najari Smith spins a community forward.

    November 1, 2022
    Today, Mr. Smith runs Rich City Rides: a worker-owned cooperative bike shop as well as a bicycle advocacy nonprofit. These two spokes of the organization are distinct, but both serve …
  • 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
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