A fascinating “experiment” is underway just 90 miles from the coast of Florida. In 2014, the Cuban government created a provisional mechanism for the first privately owned businesses in its […]

Estamos muy emocionados por echar a andar nuestro plan de beneficios dentales para nuestros miembros. El costo es mucho mejor y más barato y accesible entre todos juntos. Queremos que […]

This month we are celebrating Co-op Month! In October we are raising awareness of the more than 40,000 Cooperative businesses in the United States. These cooperatives generate $514 billion in […]

Our collective purchasing power is stronger than most of our independent workplaces could hope manage. Together we can have a plan…  where in or out of network will not be […]

Spanish | French below Social Cooperatives International School – SCIS2016 Naples (Italy), 20-23 October 2016 The CICOPA Italian member Federsolidarietà – Confcooperative, the biggest federation of social cooperatives in Europe […]

–Español debajo– It’s that time of year when we ask all worker cooperatives and other democratic workplaces to participate in our annual survey to help study the economic impact and […]

All USFWC members – workplaces and individuals, voting and non-voting – are encouraged to RSVP to attend (in-person or virtually) our annual Member Meeting. This year, we have a two-part […]

Taxi cooperatives are on the rise. Another story about how this industry can be worker-owned, featuring quotes from our own Nicole Reneau from USFWC member workplace, Black Star Coop Pub […]

Join us for our Worker Cooperative National Conference, July 29th – July 31st 2016 in Austin, Texas! 400+ inspired participants, building a new economy based on shared ownership and real […]

By ALAINA MABASO “There are many different expressions of cooperation and mutual aid in Philadelphia, among very diverse groups of people,” explains Caitlin Quigley of the Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance […]

Home care worker cooperative members and developers from across the country will gather September 12-14, 2016 in Dulles, VA at the inaugural Home Care Cooperative Conference. The conference is organized […]

Learn more about the international worker cooperative community through this newsletter from our global partners at CICOPA. The International Organisation of Industrial and Service Cooperatives, or CICOPA, has been a […]

  From ShelterForce, a publication from the National Housing Institute. By Keli A. Tianga Baby boomers are the largest percentage of business owners, and they’re headed toward retirement. The worker cooperative […]

“Ours to Share,” a new report published by the Surdna Foundation, examines worker-owned firms and analyzes their potential to create a productive, stable and equitable economy as compared with traditionally […]

Published 5 times a year, Work Together is the E-magazine of cooperatives active in Industry and Services, a news hub of those enterprises worldwide. The International Organisation of Industrial and […]

Great article about a new conversion business from our friends at the Democracy at Work Institute and the Conversions Collaborative at www.becomingeo.org.

Enjoy our 2016 winter newsletter In this issue: Worker Solidarity International Style! by Vanessa Bransburg, USFWC Board of Directors Declaration on Immigrant Workers, Proposal by USFWC and Adopted by CICOPA […]

Congratulations to Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, long-time advocate of worker cooperatives and co-founder of the USFWC, for her induction into the 2016 Cooperative Hall of Fame! Jessica is a giant […]