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SPECIAL: The deal between Mondragon and the United Steelworkers

Oct. 27, 2009: The United Steelworkers (USW) and MONDRAGON Internacional, S.A. today announced a framework agreement for collaboration in establishing MONDRAGON cooperatives in the manufacturing sector within the United States and Canada.

Go to GEO's meta-page on this historic agreement

Worker Cooperatives

Businesses that are owned and democratically controlled by their workers/employees (called "worker-owners").

Sowing Seeds of Farm Co-op In Detroit

by John Gallagher for Common Dreams

The Mo' Green Town proposal by New York City activist Majora Carter just might hit the sweet spot in Detroit urban agriculture.

Carter visited Detroit recently to talk up her plan to create a worker-owned urban agriculture cooperative venture. By pooling the efforts of numerous small growers in Detroit, it would attempt to grow big enough to generate real profits and a return for investors. But it would be run by local community growers themselves.

Read more here...

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Austin: A New Cooperative Development Center

Third Coast Workers Cooperative (TCWC) is an new cooperative development center in Austin that works with low-income communities to help them produce their own environmentally friendly, worker-owned businesses.

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Equal Exchange creating capital for new co-ops

Equal Exchange, one of the largest and most successful worker co-operatives in the United States, is pioneering a model to provide capital for new co-ops.
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The Case for Worker Co-ops

Nancy Folbre (UMass Amherst economist) on the economics of worker cooperatives
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Regional Alliance of Worker Co-ops to Publish a Movement Book

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/410
by Michael Johnson, GEO Collective

Tuesday November 3 marked a milestone for the book project of the Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives (VAWC).  Food for Thought Books, a 33-year collective and member of VAWC, hosted an advance book sale for CO-OP VALLEY! THE WORKER COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY.  They organized the event to help finance the writing and publishing of the book.

VAWC Book Event AudienceOur purpose in publishing this book is three-fold:
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Workers Consider Elder-Care Co-op in Wisconsin

Workers at an elder care home in Jefferson, Wisconsin are considering the conversion of their workplace to a worker-cooperative.
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Evergreen: Can "Anchor Institutions" Help Revitalize Declining Neighborhoods by Buying from Local Cooperatives?

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/402


by Jacquelyn Yates, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University

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Storytelling for Childcare Advocacy: Childspace Alive and Well After 21 Years!

Permanent Link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/400

By Christina A. Clamp, Director, Center for Cooperatives and Community Economic Development, and Professor, School of Community Economic Development, Southern New Hampshire University

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Mandela Foods Cooperative, opened June 6, West Oakland

West Oakland welcomes co-op's healthy foods
from Carolyn Said of the San Francisco Chronicle

Eight local residents are worker-owners who make all the store's business decisions and perform all its functions - including cashiering, stocking shelves, cleaning, taking inventory and ordering.

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