Worker Cooperatives

Worker-Owned, Worker-Spun

Ethan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:34:54 -0400

Introducing the Green Mountain Spinnery, a worker-owned wool spinnery in Vermont.

Taking Back the South Bronx: Opening Day at a Green Worker Co-op

Ethan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:39:52 -0400

By Lauren Kozol

Co-ops Unite to Support Worker-Ownership in Home Care

Ethan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:17:11 -0400

by Jim Johnson, GEO Collective

Past issues of GEO have reported on the emergence of a particular type of worker cooperative, the home care cooperative. In the 1980s, the federal government followed the lead of state governments like Wisconsin and acknowledged that elderly and disabled people who need help in day-to-day living are best served by in-home assistance. Medicare and Medicaid funding that would have otherwise been used only for nursing homes would now be applicable to home care services. With "the gray tsunami" of aging baby boomers looming, demand is only going to increase for the next few decades.

Where Teachers Rule

Ethan — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:32:36 -0400

A school with no principals? It's like a shop with no bosses. Introducing "Teacher Cooperatives"!

South End Press: Independent & Collectively-Run

Ethan — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:12:27 -0400

A radical cooperative press in Boston, since 1977.

The Seed

Ethan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:37:01 -0400

A solidarity trade organizing effort in Greece

Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives (W. Mass and Southern VT)

Ethan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:08:30 -0400

Co-op Biodiesel In Global Context

Ethan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:57:36 -0400

A Biodiesel Worker Cooperative describes the world of globalized biofuels.

The People's Grocery: Developing a Worker-Owned Community Grocery Store

Ethan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:58:16 -0500

People's Grocery is making speedy progress from a mobile organic food service cooperative towards developing a worker-owned cooperative grocery store in West Oakland in which local food and sustainable agriculture will be prioritized in a community health model centered on nutrition education for low-income residents of the community. At the same time, the cooperative is taking their business development goal beyond the single cooperative grocery store to a broader community development initiative focused on establishing a commercial and health service complex.

Searching For the Next Cooperative Principle

Ethan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:52:31 -0500

By Len Krimerman

In 1995, the International Cooperative Alliance adopted seven cooperative principles to define and guide cooperatives throughout the world. Briefly stated, the "traditional seven" include: voluntary and open membership; democratic member control; member economic participation; autonomy and independence; education, training and information; cooperation among cooperatives; and concern for community.