Worker Cooperatives

Gilda is a co-founder and Senior Advisor to the L.A. Co-op Lab which works to build L.A.’s capacity for creating and sustaining worker-owned cooperatives as one way to push back against gentrification, the gig economy, and economic exclusion. Gilda also represents L.A. Co-op Lab on the loan committee and board of the national Seed Commons financial cooperative.

Rebecca Lurie, co-author of the Union Co-ops Toolkit presents the ways in which Unions and Cooperatives can support each other to build worker power and strengthen each other's movements.

Co-op advocate and Author Clifford N. Rosenthal discusses the role CDFIs play in the development of co-ops, and his book "Democratizing Finance: Origins of the Community Development Financial Institutions Movement."

This webinar brings to life a case example of a worker-owned co-operative in a technical field.

In this video, Bruce Mayer of Wegner CPAs reviews key tips to filing your taxes as a worker cooperative, how to avoid problems with the IRS, a new tax law that could change how you do business and answers questions from cooperators doing their taxes.

An interview with Gopal Dayaneni on the Seed Commons and building community power for a just transition.

An interview with Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard

This case study analyses a multi-stakeholder network of single-stakeholder co-ops that emerged in the Colorado solar energy industry that could be a replicable model for scaling co-operative businesses despite challenges of capital access.

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the way co-ops do business in Ontario? Are there new ways of collaborating or communicating that are leading to innovation and growth of the sector?

Attorney Neil Helfman discusses his chapter in the Sustainable Economies Law Center's 2021 Legal Guide to Worker Cooperatives, as well as his thoughts on worker cooperatives in construction and climate-wise, green building, and the need for professionals to step up in the coop movement.