The California Center for Cooperative Development will host its 10th annual co-op conference at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H St. in Sacramento, on Sunday, April 28, and Monday, […]
Read More >March 2019
Berkeley Sets the Bar for Municipal Support of Worker Cooperatives
Last night, Berkeley City Council unanimously adopted a set of recommendations provided by the Sustainable Economies Law Center (Law Center) and a coalition of worker coop members and advocates. In […]
Read More >The UMD Co-op may be closing, but worker cooperatives have a future
Worker cooperatives don’t often receive the recognition they deserve as examples of alternative forms of economic organization. The Maryland Food Co-op has recently received some publicity after announcing it will […]
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Worker Co-op Farm Peer Network Update March 2019
The second ever peer network call for farmworker coops was a success! We connected with several farmworker coops from across the US who are looking to create a space for […]
Read More >City of Baltimore commits funding to help BRED accelerate business conversions to worker cooperatives
The Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy (BRED) is thrilled to announce that Baltimore has joined other leading cities in committing public support for worker cooperative development. With the award of […]
Read More >Building Bridges: Spectrum Cable Strikers Propose Forming A Workers’ Cooperative To Take Over The Cable Franchise
Nevertheless despite the toll the strike has taken on these intrepid workers keep on keeping on, and have even, with the support of their union been exploring the creation of […]
Read More >Worcester co-op prints for progressives such as Warren, Biden, Ocasio-Cortez
On the top floor of an old industrial building at 41 Jackson St., steps from a factory where garment workers a hundred years ago made women’s corsets, a printers’ cooperative […]
Read More >Illinois Proposal Aims To Empower Worker Co-ops
Co-ops allow their employees to also be the owners. But state law doesn’t recognize them as a business entity, which makes it hard to get financial backing. State Rep. Carol […]
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Co-op Hour Conversions to the Worker Co-op Business Model
Co-op Hour is the USFWC’s bi-monthly online, interactive gathering dedicated to exploring a specific topic within the worker cooperative movement, featuring worker-owners and experts in the field. This video […]
Read More >What if Workers Owned Their Workplaces?
Can good values be good business, too? For generations, the cooperative movement has been answering with a resounding “Yes!” After a surge of entrepreneurial fervor following the 2007 economic collapse, […]
Read More >Changing its tune: Downtown Sounds to become worker-owned cooperative after retirement of founder Joe Blumenthal
“It’s really an institution in the community,” Blumenthal said this week. Blumenthal, 70, opened the store in 1976, with no musical background. Yet his father told him that if he […]
Read More >Berkeley Pledges Support and Funding for Worker Co-ops
Last week, the Cheeseboard’s longtime home committed to a new strategy for fighting economic inequality and building the local economy: city support for worker cooperatives. The Berkeley City Council voted […]
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The USFWC supports the Green New Deal
The future of work in the U.S. depends on responding to the social, economic, and environmental needs of our country and world. The multi-faceted, visionary Green New Deal both combats […]
Read More >3 surprising facts that will change the way you think about worker cooperatives: Q&A with Virginie Pérotin
Is it really easier, as some have said, to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism? In the capitalist model, corporations are treated as […]
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