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 […]
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‘Bicycles kind of saved my life.’ Najari Smith spins a community forward.
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 […]
Read More >Cast your ballot today for the 2022 Regional Board Elections
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 […]
Read More >How Small Community Investors Helped Get a Boston Food Co-op Off the Ground
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Read More >Worker’s Tap Has the City’s Best Activist Library on Its Top Floor
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 […]
Read More >Inside the Brooklyn Packers’ Vision for a Community-Based Micro Food Hub
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 […]
Read More >How a Worker-Owned Business Model in Spain Is Keeping Inequality in Check
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 […]
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Arial Guarco re-elected President of the ICA at the General Assembly in Seville
A new Board of Director was also elected The members of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) have renewed the mandate of Ariel Guarco for the next four years. From a […]
Read More >Worker Retention in Homecare: Could Cooperatives Be the Solution?
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 […]
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Worker Co-ops In DC Provide Mutual Aid to Stranded Asylum-Seekers
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, […]
Read More >Brightly, first U.S. franchised immigrant co-op, expands in New York and Philadelphia
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 […]
Read More >Labor secretary meets with companies to bolster job quality as a record number of Americans quit
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 […]
Read More >What If We Owned It?
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 […]
Read More >How a majority BIPOC worker co-op is disrupting the field of therapy
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Read More >Safeguarding Our Local Economies: Cooperative businesses on display at RI State House
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 […]
Read More >Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority could receive $1.2M in city funding
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 […]
Read More >Employee-owned businesses foster healthier local economies
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 […]
Read More >Riding the Wave: Cooperative Conversion and the Silver Tsunami
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 […]
Read More >Latest Worker Co-op Survey Shows More Co-ops but Fewer Workers
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Read More >How worker cooperatives shift power to workers
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 […]
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