Call goes out for women co-operators to join new football team
A group of women from worker co-ops are looking to set up a co-operatives football team to enter the Freedom Through Football tournament.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Harvest food co-op no longer reaping what it sowed
Organic food has grown from a niche business that once appealed mostly to “health nuts” into a booming mainstream industry with $40 billion in annual sales nationwide. But one of the original purveyors of natural groceries in the Boston area isn’t reaping any of the profits.
