“All for One - Response of worker-owned cooperatives to non-standard employment”, a new report produced by CECOP sets out to show the contributions made by cooperatives to the issues related to non-standard employment, such as precariousness, low income, insufficient social security coverage and workers’ isolation.
How can the skills and values of agrarian, connected communities be brought into the 21st century in an urban environment? That’s the task of the Eunpyeong Sharing Center, in Seoul, Korea, where local residents of the district can learn skills, rent tools, and even rent space for events.
What would happen if low-wage workers came together to cut out the middleman and build their own platforms? This isn’t just a thought experiment. Worker-owned apps are already providing real alternatives to dismal working conditions in the global gig economy.
Up & Go is a home cleaning app owned by workers in New York City. “On other apps, the owners set your wages, but we set our own wages,” said worker-owner Esmeralda Flores.
I’ve been wondering when the craft beer market would begin consolidating.
Over the holidays, the union says the two sides have not resumed talks to end the weeks-long labour dispute, which has largely been over pension reform.
But Unifor says it has other ways to put pressure on Co-op, like its call to boycott the company.
[B]efore we rush to introduce sortition into the governance structures of our cooperatives, it is worth noting that much of Pek’s article is still speculative. Pek qualifies most of his claims with the words “likely to” because the truth is that we don’t have a ton of empirical evidence yet for the effectiveness of sortition in cooperatives, particularly as a way to avoid degeneration.
But we may not be aware of a U.S.-born graduate of the Coady Institute, the late Fr. Albert J. McKnight, a remarkable African-American Spiritan priest who passed away in 2016 at the age of 88. Here’s how one obituary described him:
Fr. Albert McKnight and others talk about the Southern Consumers' Cooperative.
By the second half of the 20th Century Basque traditions of solidarity also fostered one of the world’s strongest worker cooperative movements. Worker-owned cooperatives, companies, and associations now account for around 10 percent of all jobs in Euskadi, and 17 percent of exports.
