A former union executive and Saskatoon Co-op worker is leading the charge to have the Co-op’s board of directors removed.
Craig Thebaud, head of the Facebook page “Saskatoon Co-op Members for the Fair Treatment of Employees,” is circulating a petition among members to force a membership meeting and vote on a motion to remove the nine members of the Saskatoon Co-op board.
Platform Cooperativism Consortium 2018 Sept 29 | Day 2 Showcases III: Platform Cooperativism as a Global Movement
Lieza Dessein -- SMart, Belgium
平台合作大會 2018 9月29日 | 第二日 案例分享: 全球的平台合作運動
Lieza Dessein -- SMart, 比利時
This document describes a governance/economic model for self-sustaining, mission-oriented, distributed organizations.
Mastodon is based around communities. These communities can be specialist networks based on the topic(s) you’re most interested in. You don’t need all of your friends to be within these communities, to find interesting people, useful content and worthwhile interactions.
Fargo just trailblazed its way as the first US city to use approval voting for government elections.
What’s approval voting, you ask?
Perhaps nothing is more intimidating than a blank page. Being asked to create ‘membership share capital and member rights’ from scratch can damage confidence and interfere with the development process.
Small town residents everywhere know the feeling of declining populations, services, and businesses. But what if rural communities could use their investment dollars to bolster their own economies? With a co-operative, they can.
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.”
