“It’s nice to know I am part of positive change in the world,” said O’Brien, the company’s founder, general manager and one of its owner-workers. The printing enterprise is a […]
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Washington adopts new program to help businesses become employee-owned
Washington lawmakers want to make it easier to form businesses without bosses. They passed a bill Wednesday that provides support and resources for companies seeking to become employee-owned. A few […]
Read More >Advocating in a Fractured System
What’s particularly striking for me is being part of Cooperative Home Care and having this dual identity of both a home care agency and a worker-owned cooperative. There was […]
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 >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 >Pittsburgh Hosts Nation’s First Citywide Task Force on Employee Ownership
PA – Pittsburgh kicked off the nation’s first citywide task force by hosting a meeting on employee ownership on Sept. 5 at Chatham University. Pittsburgh created the task force on […]
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 >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 >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 […]
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USFWC speaks at press conference with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Nydia Velázquez
The House of Representatives passed the Main Street Employee Ownership act (HR 5236), now it’s on to the Senate! Our Executive Director Esteban Kelly participated in a press conference on […]
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Worker-Owned Businesses Get More Support From D.C.
“Federal officials and policymakers are putting more emphasis on worker-ownership of businesses. This support comes at a time when the cooperative model — a business owned and controlled by its workers, who […]
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After raising more than $9,000, the Maryland Co-op is back — with mac ‘n cheese (PS, there’s still time to donate!)
“Immediately … we got a huge amount of support from the community,” said Chris Moulson, a worker-owner at the Co-op for the past four years. “People came out left and […]
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Employee Ownership and the Next System
“In the near future, worker cooperatives will have a very essential role in converting existing small businesses where the founder wants to retire to broad based employee ownership. Any notion […]
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