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TechCollective is a worker-owned and operated tech support cooperative, providing IT services for businesses and nonprofits in the Boston area. We're seeking a full-time Desktop Support technician to work from our office in Cambridge, as well as to work on-site with business customers in the area . This is a customer-facing role providing quick, clear communication and support for clients under service level agreements, as well as the occasional break/fix support issue. This position will work closely with TechCollective team members.

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Tech Support Co-op Now Hiring New Desktop Support Technician

UFCW Canada Local 1400 members working at Saskatoon Co-op have been forced out on strike by a greedy employer who wants to rollback the principles of the co-op movement – principles like fairness and pay equity.

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Stop Greed at Saskatoon Co-op

Labor Notes has always emphasized that union power requires democracy. That’s because unions need active members to be strong—and people won’t stay active for long if they don’t have a meaningful say.

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Checklist: Are You Organizing Democratically?

Sharing Cities Summit. 14th November.

Nicole Alix (La Coop des Communs), Guillaume Compain (Co-Communs), Martin Van den Borre (CITIES), Mohammed el Youssof (XES), Iris Aviñoa & Fernando Panigua (World Social Forum Barcelona 2019-2020) and Patrice Bessac (Mayor of Montreuil).

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Current agenda of Commons and Social & Solidarity Economy Initiatives

From humble beginnings six years ago, Baltimore’s worker-owned roaster and retailer Thread Coffee Roasters has been building a solid local patronage based on mutual benefits through its Community Supported Coffee program, inspired by the community cupported agriculture, or CSA, subscription model.

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Thread Coffee Wonderfully Weaves a Women-Owned Co-Op in Baltimore

Four outstanding cooperative leaders will receive the cooperative community’s most prestigious honor on May 8, 2019, when they are inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame.

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2019 Cooperative Hall of Fame Inductees Announ

The underlying problem here is the classic problem of business unionism—it confuses growing a movement with selling a product.

Outgoing SEIU Local 775 President David Rolf is the most prominent exponent of this dead-end approach. His new book proposes that unions stay relevant by pursuing nine “value propositions.”

What’s that? Rolf defines a value proposition as “a specific strategy that delivers quantifiable benefits to a recipient through a uniquely differentiated product, service, or intervention that solves a problem or improves a situation.”

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Labor's Real Innovators Will Come from the Ranks, Not the Corporate World

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