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WHATCOM — Modesto Hernandez walks up and down the rows of raspberry bushes, where some of the first berries of the year are nearly falling off the branch. He is showing volunteers the best ones to pick. 

“This one, and this one,” he said, tugging on the dark red berries. “These are the ripest.”

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The question addressed in this paper is the new role for a union or a union-like body in a democratic worker-owned company. The approach to the question was to draw on the historical experience with political democracy, particularly the English instituion of the opposition. This experience clearly points to the importance of having an institutionalized and legitimate opposition in any large democratic organization.

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Because its mission is to give voice to and win rights for 2.5 million domestic workers (nannies, housecleaners, and home care workers), a “vital American workforce that perform real, demanding work yet are denied basic labor rights, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, also mentioned in NPQ’s coverage of a new labor movement

The ONE DC Black Workers & Wellness Center is a member-led community & wellness space in Anacostia that builds racial & economic justice through popular education, promotion of sustainable employment, & the incubation of economic alternatives.

With figures from the British Retail Consortium confirming that over 10% of town centre shops are empty, the party aims to enable councils to give empty high street shops to start-ups, co-operative businesses and community projects.

Playwright Darrah Teitel gives co-op living a good deal of credit for her artistic success.

“If I didn’t have the option of living in this kind of community, I probably wouldn’t be able to take the time and have the financial security to write,” she said. “Having the support of the co-op behind me makes a difference.”

Greg Brodsky, 42, founder of Start.coop, a startup accelerator for co-ops, says the interesting thing about co-ops is that people love them but don’t know what they are. He’s working to keep the former and change the latter by helping social entrepreneurs launch successful ones.

Last week I had the opportunity to listen in on Chordata Capital’s webinar “Investing with a Reparations Lens”.

Scotland’s islands have the highest proportion of co-operatives of any part of the UK thanks to a long tradition of self-reliance, a survey has found.

The study by Co-operatives UK, the sector’s development body, said its survey of co-ops by local authority area found the Western Isles and Orkney topped the table with 8.16 and 5.91 co-ops respectively per 10,000 people. Shetland came in third, with 5.63. Eden in Cumbria came in joint fourth, with 4.55, followed by nearby Allerdale with 3.6.