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Buy Hand Sanitizer From This Black, Queer-Owned Business to Support Sex Workers
Hygiene Hustle is possibly the only sex worker-owned and operated sanitary goods manufacturer in the nation. Read more on them.
Read More >The profit maximizing corporate model must evolve
One solution proposed by our organization, The Democracy Collaborative, is to create local economy preservation funds. These are holding companies that would invest equity in small and medium business enterprises, […]
Read More >Verso Mill set to halt production as potential buyer brings hope
Henry Schienebeck, executive director of Great Lakes Timber Professionals, tells Newschannel 7 his Rhinelander-based group is working on forming a co-op with the City of Wisconsin Rapids and union workers […]
Read More >Financialised care is crumbling. How can workers shape what comes next?
There have been recent calls for laws to support worker buyouts in order to save businesses facing bankruptcy. While any legislation to support employee ownership is welcome, localised care home […]
Read More >Cooperative enterprises may lead to “new normal” for Native businesses
MNIBA hopes to help Native communities band together, inspire individuals to become successful entrepreneurs, and build new business ventures by using community and cooperative development tools. Working with like-minded people […]
Read More >Building a Co-op Economy in Maine—And Perhaps in Your State Too
Co-ops are businesses owned and governed by their members. Co-ops can form as start-ups or by converting from an existing small business. Co-ops fall into a few general categories. Consumer […]
Read More >The Former Deadspin People Explain How to Launch a Worker-Owned Media Co-op That Might Succeed
For the past five years, the media industry has been on a unionizing spree. This wave of worker empowerment—combined with the industry’s regular waves of layoffs, folding publications, and management […]
Read More >The Former Deadspin People Explain How to Launch a Worker-Owned Media Co-op That Might Succeed
For the past five years, the media industry has been on a unionizing spree. This wave of worker empowerment—combined with the industry’s regular waves of layoffs, folding publications, and management […]
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Building Bridges, Not Walking on Backs
A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for COVID-19 The road to economic recovery should not be across women’s backs. COVID-19, and the measures being implemented to contain it, are deeply affecting […]
Read More >Cooperative Ownership: A Covid Recovery Strategy
Greater community control over local economies can help to stave off the predators that—as we learned during the 2008 crisis—start to circle the most marginalized populations when disaster strikes. Co-ownership […]
Read More >Johnson Introduces Bill to Help Businesses Restore Capital, Give Employees Stake in Business Success
“Unfortunately, many businesses of all sizes remain either totally or significantly shut down months into the coronavirus pandemic. PPP provided short-term financial support to small businesses, but now Congress needs […]
Read More >Empowered Employees Key to Digital Transformation
Employee ownership is the fuel that makes a digital transformation pilot succeed. The digital transformation needs to start by providing every technician affected by the new technologies a chance to […]
Read More >East Lothian’s Jerba Campervans speeds up profits and productivity
East Lothian firm Jerba Campervans has welcomed accelerated productivity and profit in its most recent financial year – saying it is very much seeing the benefits of employee ownership. Read […]
Read More >Small businesses are struggling. Workers can be the solution.
Whether for those that were spared the worst or those on the edge of survival, the most plausible option for saving businesses and jobs is often an employee buyout. Ideally, […]
Read More >When Bosses Shared Their Profits
In December 1916, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a report on profit-sharing, suggesting it as a way to reduce the “frequent and often violent disputes” between employers and workers, […]
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CICOPA General Assembly
Para español, haga clíc aquí Since the ICA Congress in Seoul, Korea, has been postponed to next year, the 2020 CICOPA General Assembly won’t be able to gather physically, however […]
Read More >Democracy in Child Care: A Conversation with Esteban Kelly on Child Care Worker Ownership
Joe Waters interviews Esteban Kelly of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives on the advantages of worker cooperatives for advancing a more equitable child care industry. Read more at https://www.capitasocial.org/cooperatives-blog/2020/6/19/democracy-in-child-care-a-conversation-with-esteban-kelly-on-child-care-worker-ownership
Read More >Cooperatives must confront the challenges of our time to build a more inclusive economy – NCBA CLUSA
As the national, cross-sector association of cooperative enterprises, NCBA CLUSA takes seriously its responsibility to lift up the voices of our movement, especially during challenging times. Above all, this publication exists to share the meaningful work of the cooperative community as we work to build a better world for everyone.
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