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.
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


