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Eastside Food Co-op workers vote to unionize with UFCW Local 653

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Eastside Food Co-op workers vote to unionize with UFCW Local 653

Workers press for union at three Seward Co-op facilities in Minneapolis

On Wednesday, workers staged a demonstration and presented cards asking for a union election to the Minneapolis office of the National Labor Relations Board.

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Workers press for union at three Seward Co-op facilities in Minneapolis

Pint for the people: New brewery-restaurant touts democratic spirit

...it isn’t the location that makes the state’s newest brewery unique. It's the fact that it's one of the few breweries in the state to operate as a worker-owned cooperative, granting employees equity shares in the business after one year of employment. While most breweries are owned as traditional small businesses, Harpoon Brewery became employee-owned in 2014.

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Pint for the people: New brewery-restaurant touts democratic spirit

Co-ops lead the way in putting communities in charge of new housing projects

Co-operatives, community land trusts and other housing models are coming together to help communities design their own homes and neighbourhoods.
The new concept – known as a platform for social production of habitat (SPH) – means locals are involved in projects, so they meet their own specifications rather than those set by the private market.

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Co-ops lead the way in putting communities in charge of new housing projects

Miami-Dade Solar Co-ops

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Miami-Dade Solar Co-ops

Boulder opens applications for new co-op housing licenses

Boulder is now accepting applications from those seeking to establish housing co-operatives in the city, with the first licenses expected to be granted in mid-July.

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Boulder opens applications for new co-op housing licenses

A unified working class movement, with Nijmie Dzurinko

The conversations since the election have mostly hinged on how divided Americans are, on the splits between rural and urban, black and white, immigrant and citizen. But there are material issues that affect many, many people in this country right now, starting with healthcare, and Nijmie Dzurinko of Put People First PA has been organizing across divides in the deeply split state of Pennsylvania for years, using healthcare as a way to unify working-class communities around the things that matter most.

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A unified working class movement, with Nijmie Dzurinko