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Worker Ownership For the 21st Century?

The Union Co-op Model: this country’s largest industrial labor union teamed up with the world’s largest worker-cooperative to present a plan that would put people to work in labor-driven enterprises that build worker power and communities, too.

New Oakland Worker Cooperative Uses Profits to Create Jobs in Bay Area

Co-Soap Hopes Its Unique Business Model Will Spark Economic Growth and Justice.
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Visions & Models: 
cooperative economy
place-based (local) economics
Movements & Struggles: 
Economic Justice
Workplace Democracy
Practices, Tools & Strategies: 
Networking & Collaboration
Financing
Economic Sectors: 
Manufacturing

Mondragon and the US Steelworkers Partnership: an Update

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/584

By Christina Clamp, GEO collective member

Regions: 
United States
Western Europe
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Visions & Models: 
cooperative economy
Economic Sectors: 
Manufacturing

Co-ops and the Next Industrial Revolution...

In an age of open source, custom-fabricated, DIY product design...
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Visions & Models: 
solidarity economy
cooperative economy
Economic Sectors: 
Manufacturing

Mondragon Diaries: Day Five

Our first stop is another component allied with Mongragon University called SAIOLAN. It's an incubator project for helping to launch new coops and high-tech businesses as well as training new entrepreneurs.
Regions: 
Western Europe
Institutions & Structures: 
Producer Cooperatives
Cooperative Financial Institutions
Credit Unions
Visions & Models: 
solidarity economy
cooperative economy
diverse economies
Economic Sectors: 
Organizational Support & Development
Manufacturing
Financing & Financial Services
Retail Trade
Trade & Exchange

Mondragon Diaries: Day Three

Our topic this morning is the wider range of the cooperative movement, both in the Basque Country and Spain. Mondragon is a part of the Basque Cooperative Confederation. There are currently 755 cooperatives in the Basque Country, and only 80 of them are the worker-owned MCC coops. There are a total of 537,000 members of all the coops, but only 54,919 are worker members, and 37,860 of these are the MCC worker-owners. 

Regions: 
Western Europe
Institutions & Structures: 
Cooperative Financial Institutions
Credit Unions
Visions & Models: 
solidarity economy
cooperative economy
high-road economic development
socialism
Movements & Struggles: 
Economic Justice
Workplace Democracy
Economic Sectors: 
Organizational Support & Development
Manufacturing
Financing & Financial Services
Retail Trade
Trade & Exchange

Mondragon Diaries: Day Two

...As we left, many in our group were debating the pros and cons of global economic justice. I shared their concerns, but I also saw something else. Here was the beginnings of some of the most advanced productive forces in the world, the means of both economies of abundance and the means of clean and safe renewable energies and far lighter ecological footprints.
Regions: 
Western Europe
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Visions & Models: 
solidarity economy
cooperative economy
Movements & Struggles: 
Economic Justice
Workplace Democracy
Economic Sectors: 
Manufacturing
Financing & Financial Services
Retail Trade
Trade & Exchange

Mondragon Diaries: Carl Davidson's Five Days Studying Cutting-Edge People and Tools for Change

I'm with a group of 25 social activists on a study tour organized by the Praxis Peace Project. Our focus is the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, a 50-year-old network of nearly 120 factories and agencies, involving nearly 100,000 workers in one way or another, and centered in the Basque Country but now spanning the globe. We're here to study the history of these unique worker-owned factories, how they work, why they have been successful, and how they might be expanded in various ways as instruments of social change.
Regions: 
Western Europe
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Cooperative Financial Institutions
Credit Unions
Visions & Models: 
solidarity economy
cooperative economy
Movements & Struggles: 
Economic Justice
Economic Sectors: 
Organizational Support & Development
Manufacturing
Financing & Financial Services
Retail Trade
Trade & Exchange

Senate committee holds hearing on employee ownership in Montpelier

Vermont Employee Ownership Center reports onthe field hearing of the Senate committee on Health, Education, Kabir, and Pensions (HELP) conerning worker-ownership legislation Sen Bernie Sanders has introduced.   http://www.veoc.org/hearing.html

Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
ESOPs
Visions & Models: 
solidarity economy
high-road economic development
Movements & Struggles: 
Economic Justice
Workplace Democracy
Economic Sectors: 
Manufacturing
Retail Trade

The John Logue ACE Award; other ACE Awards

The Association of Cooperative Educators established the John Logue ACE award at its 58th annual conference in Cleveland July27-30, 2010. Ohio Employee Ownership Center staff members, Bill McIntyre and Logue's wife, Olga Klepikova, talk about Logue's work, vision, "moxie" and his impact on Ohio and the U.S. Other ACE awardees for 2010 are also mentioned.

Co-op Studies Go Global: The Master in Management - Cooperatives and Credit Unions

Permanent link to this article:  http://geo.coop/node/448

Regions: 
Canada
Western Europe
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Visions & Models: 
cooperative economy
Economic Sectors: 
Education
Manufacturing

In Memoriam: John Logue - Workers Academician

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/444

Regions: 
United States
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
ESOPs
Economic Sectors: 
Education
Manufacturing

A Sampling of News and Opinion Regarding the Deal Between Mondragon and the United Steelworkers

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/411

Regions: 
United States
Canada
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Visions & Models: 
solidarity economy
Movements & Struggles: 
Organized Labor
Economic Sectors: 
Manufacturing

Update on occupied factories in Argentina

Factory in the Hands of Workers

Zanon belongs to the people: FASINPAT wins definitive expropriation
Regions: 
Latin America
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Visions & Models: 
solidarity economy
Movements & Struggles: 
Workplace Democracy
Economic Sectors: 
Manufacturing

Worker-Owned, Worker-Spun

Introducing the Green Mountain Spinnery, a worker-owned wool spinnery in Vermont.
Regions: 
United States
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Movements & Struggles: 
Workplace Democracy
Economic Sectors: 
Manufacturing

King Arthur Flour: "B" Is for "Beneficial"

An employee-owned company has become the first "B" Corporation-- a new logo and certification that indicates social and environmental responsibility.
Regions: 
United States
Institutions & Structures: 
ESOPs
Economic Sectors: 
Manufacturing

Forward from the book "SIN PATRON: Stories from Argentina's Worker-Run Factories

By Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis

On March 19, 2003, we were on the roof of the Zanon ceramic tile factory, filming an interview with Cepillo. He was showing us how the workers fended off eviction by armed police, defending their democratic workplace with slingshots and the little ceramic balls normally used to pound the Patagonian clay into raw material for tiles. His aim was impressive. It was the day the bombs started falling on Baghdad.

Regions: 
Latin America
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Movements & Struggles: 
Workplace Democracy
Economic Sectors: 
Manufacturing

A Participatory Credit Union for Worker Cooperatives

By Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

Credit: www.fao.orgIn order to compete in a corporations-dominated economy, worker cooperatives need millions of dollars to finance large-scale businesses in manufacturing and production.

Regions: 
United States
Institutions & Structures: 
Worker Cooperatives
Cooperative Financial Institutions
Credit Unions
Practices, Tools & Strategies: 
Cross-Sector Alliances
Economic Sectors: 
Manufacturing
Financing & Financial Services
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