Earlier this month, Univision announced it was selling Gizmodo Media Group (a digital media company comprising former Gawker sites such as Gizmodo, Kotaku, Splinter, Jezebel, and The Root) as well as the Onion (including its eponymous site, The A.V. Club, Clickhole, and The Takeout) to a private equity firm, Great Hill Partners.
You know what I hate? Rating drivers on Lyft. Three stars? Five stars? I know Lyft wants to feed the ravenous maw of its machine intelligence, but I worry that drivers will get punished for low ratings. In the app-dominated gig economy, platforms already hoover up as much as 30 percent of the fees, and workers barely eke out a living.
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There are over 20,000 cooperatives in Argentina, and the most colorful ones are the 300+ that are known as “recovered businesses.” These are companies that went bankrupt and closed, but the workers re-entered the buildings and re-opened the businesses, now converted to worker co-ops. They’re found largely, though not exclusively, in Buenos Aires.
At the Open Coop conference in London I interviewed Maru Bautista, Director of the Cooperative Development Program at the Center for Family Life in Brooklyn, New York. For the past 5 years, she has worked with her team and the Sunset Park community to strengthen immigrant-led worker cooperatives in New York City.
US banks and credit unions providing financial services at federal level could soon be able to serve legal cannabis businesses.
The US House Committee on Financial Services has voted through a bill to provide the legal framework for federal banking institutions to serve cannabis businesses.
But it also needs to be passed by the full House before being sent to the Senate for a vote.
About five years ago, Federated Co-ops Limited, (FCL) a very large player in the co-operative sector in Western Canada, became concerned about the lack of co-op development in rural and Indigenous communities. So they asked The Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at the University of Saskatoon, to find out why.
Educational interviews with San Francisco Bay Area Worker Cooperatives on issues critical to starting a successful worker cooperative business.
"This Way Out: A Guide To Starting A Worker Cooperative" Interviews with Worker Coop members & coop attorneys (2012) Includes woodworker coop, tech coops, bakery, cheese/pizza, bike shop coop, soap maker coop, Bio Fuel/urban farm supplies, more.
People are resourceful in small-town Alberta. In Smoky Lake — population 960 — there had never been a daycare facility, and parents always had to cobble together childcare plans.
