Senator Baldwin’s Worker Owned Wealth Act aims to promote employee ownership business models like Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) or worker cooperatives that give workers a seat at the table and help […]
Read More >March 2018
Commentary: Bill would help retiring business owners transfer ownership to workers
As with Susanne Ward, employee ownership can often provide business owners the best chance to secure their retirement, while sustaining the jobs and economic activity our communities depend on. In […]
Read More >USFWC Board Member Mai Nguyen named in the “Grist 50 2018” List
Meet the people who are cooking up the boldest, most ambitious solutions to humanity’s biggest challenges. We like to call these forward-thinking phenoms “Fixers.” They are leaders who will actually […]
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Workers to Owners: The Story of A Child’s Place
The story of A Child’s Place, a childcare business in New York, produced by our sister organization, the Democracy at Work Institute
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The Namasté Solar Difference – An Employee-Owned Business as a Force for Good
Namasté Solar is a very different kind of solar company, and how we’re built from the ground up to deliver a better quality to our customers as we achieve […]
Read More >Worker Ownership and The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2018
The report on the March 23rd Omnibus Appropriations Act includes language on worker ownership. Last Friday, President Trump signed into law the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018“. Why is this special […]
Read More >Quilting Co-op is First Social Enterprise Project at Thunder Valley
Cooperation is at the heart of a new women-owned quilting business on the Pine Ridge Reservation through Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation. The Owíŋža Quilters Cooperative launched earlier this month and […]
Read More >Drink Your Coffee Black-Owned
ATLANTA — Ormond Ashby bounces into the unheated, under-construction home of Café ULUon a chilly January day with a bayonet saw and an air of enthusiasm. The 76-year-old retiree is […]
Read More >Good Dog, Bad Zombie board game launched by US worker co-op
Faced with a zombie apocalypse, dogs need to rescue “hoomans” from being eaten alive: this is the plot of the latest board game developed by worker co-operative Make Big Things. Based […]
Read More >Two ESOP Bills Progress in Congress
Two bills on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) have passed without dissent in the Small Business Committees in the House and the Senate, and both have bipartisan support. By unanimous vote, the […]
Read More >Worker Co-op Created to End Food Desert is Ready to Expand
A food co-op created to offer healthy produce in an area with no grocery stores has been so successful it is doubling the size of its premises. Mandela Foods Cooperative, in […]
Read More >House Committee on Small Business passes the Main Street Employee Ownership Act with bipartisan support
“I am proud that our Committee came together to pass legislation to help small businesses in all sectors,” said Small Business House Committee Ranking Member Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY). […]
Read More >Landmark Employee Ownership Bills Advance in Congress without Dissent
“Two bills on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) have passed without dissent in the Small Business Committees in the House and the Senate,” writes Lee Barney in Plan Sponsor. Both bills, he adds, […]
Read More >Co-ops and worker owned firms make list of world’s biggest retailers
Several co-ops have been included in the list of world’s 250 biggest retailers, compiled by professional services network Deloitte. Deloitte’s 21st annual Global Powers of Retailing report is based on publicly available data for […]
Read More >Could Tech Companies Work as Co-ops?
The question came up at a recent event on employee-owned businesses: will this trend of worker ownership ever spread to the tech world? Eager to offer insights, Maria Cardenas, a […]
Read More >Rock City Coffee Officially Becomes a Worker Cooperative
When Susanne Ward and her late partner Patrick Reilley moved to Rockland from California in 1991, they knew it wasn’t easy to make a living in midcoast Maine and they […]
Read More >Rock City Coffee Workers to Become Business Owners
ROCKLAND — The pending sale of Rock City Coffee and Rock City Coffee Roasters to their workers will assure the continuation of the longtime downtown businesses. Susanne Ward, who founded the […]
Read More >7 resistance-themed board games to strengthen your injustice-fighting skills
Exhausted personally and politically by the current state of the world? Or just need a distraction — something to lighten up the remaining days of winter? Here’s a recommendation: Play […]
Read More >At Law Forum, Experts Discuss Worker Co-ops as Economic Model
Worker cooperatives are a viable alternative to corporate capitalism, yet they are rarely brought up in political discourse, two speakers at a Harvard Law Forum event argued Wednesday. Nathan Schneider, […]
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