Union and co-ops go hand in hand. When workers come together as a union to fight for better pay and benefits, safer working conditions, and for respect, they are practicing worker cooperation. When people come together as a cooperative business to meet their community's needs, they are creating a better world for us all. Help us organize unions and cooperatives as parts of one united labor movement, ready to win against bad bosses, landlords, and lenders.
The Union Co-ops Council is our national network building bridges between labor unions and worker cooperatives. We connect union and co-op organizers for learning, sharing resources and building collective strategies for worker power.
Find our next events at usworker.coop/calendar or on the USFWC Worker Co-op Slack.
Resources for Union Co-ops
- Unions and Worker Co-ops: Why Economic Justice Requires Collaboration - Nonprofit Quarterly
- Union Co-op History - union, worker-owned printer Worx
- A Union Toolkit for Cooperative Solutions - strategies used by labor unions with case studies supporting the creation of worker cooperatives and other worker-owned businesses, 2021
- Sustainable Jobs, Sustainable Communities: The Union Co-op Model - foundational publication establishing union co-op model in US, 2012
- Forming Union Co-ops CooperationWorks! Webinar, 2022
- Becoming our own Bosses: Union Cooperatives as a Strategy for Building Worker Power - Lisa Hubbard, New Economy Coalition


