Meet the students who stopped exploitation at the Hersheys plant and are demanding that PA workers get living wage jobs. Send messages of solidarity to justice-at-hersheys@guestworkeralliance.org.

Robert Oakeshott, English organizer of cooperatives and author of The Case for Workers' Co-ops, passed away June 21st.  Obituaries in the Guardian, the Economist, and the Telegraph.

Roy Messing of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center gives an hour-long webinar on starting worker cooperatives.  Roy also recently authored an article on business succession in Grassroots Economic Organizing.

OEOC has many other webinars online, including

• The Evergreen Cooperative Project - an overview
• The Ohio Cooperative Solar Story
• Creating and Maintaining an Ownership Culture
• Selling Your Business to Your Employees: Employee-Owned Cooperative
• S-Corp, C-Corp, Partnership_ Entity Selection in Succession Planning

One of the formative questions of the contemporary worker cooperative movement has been that of who the movement is for.  What group of people are included in the movement's organizations, have access the movement's resources, share and shape the movement's values and the campaigns around those values?  

More information about this is available in several of Greg's online reports, including:

The organizers of the 2008 National Worker Cooperative Conference deftly delegated note-taking responsibilities to volunteers and ended up with a treasure trove of documentation. If you want to refresh your memory of where we left off, or are eager to get a jump start on the 2010 conference so you can ask informed questions, the archive of conference workshop notes from New Orleans (also listed below) is full of information.