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Mirisata isn’t exclusively run by worker-owners. Worker-ownership is only eligible for employees working more than 32 hours per week at Mirisata, and new full-time employees need to stick around for a six-month trial period before officially becoming worker-owners. Plus, not every employee is interested in the responsibilities or commitment of becoming a worker-owner. So, last week, a group of Mirisata’s employees did something unusual within the co-op world: They unionized.

Shine’s 5 worker-owners, all of whom are women, will now run the childcare center by themselves. This business model, known as worker-ownership, has been shown to create resilient jobs, generate wealth, and boost the local economy.

“I’ve definitely been celebrating all month and telling my kids, ‘Your Momma owns a business!’” said worker-owner Mary Wilder, who has been at Shine for two years. Before now, paperwork discouraged her from owning a childcare center. She changed her mind because Shine was “such a wonderful place to work.”

A vital contribution that Binh Minh Agroforestry Cooperative (BMAC) makes to its community is by generating profits and jobs. In 2020, BMAC made a profit of 147.85 million VND (US$ 6,406) and created several jobs for local people with daily wages from 230,000 VND to 270,000 VND (US$ 10 to 12). BMAC provides stable jobs for local people, including women, youth and the aged, with labour safety always taken into consideration.

National Cooperative Bank (NCB), a leading financial services company dedicated to providing banking products and services to cooperatives and socially responsible organizations nationwide is pleased to announce the founding of Rochdale Capital.

Jorge’s book Political Solidarity Economy introduces the principles that form the basis of an economic alternative to the capitalist model of exploitation and plunder. It proposes implementing methodologies rooted in lived realities.

Rhode Island PBS Weekly takes a look at Providence’s White Electric cafe, the state’s first cooperatively owned coffee shop. Following disagreements with the shop’s previous owner and the ensuing decision to sell the business, workers organized to form a union and ultimately purchase the business themselves.

Workers at REI Co-Op’s flagship store in Manhattan voted overwhelmingly to unionize on Wednesday, becoming the first of the outdoor and camping retail chain’s 170 in the country to unionize. 

The Firehouse is filled with remnants of former Athens cooperators. An ornate, unicorn-shaped, ceramic clock sits on the house’s mantle, framed by pollinator wall art and a sign for the now-defunct ACME co-op. Current residents have added their mark to the house, too, painting rooms and making the space their own.

Without a landlord, Firehouse members have more autonomy to alter the house. However, they also must deal with maintenance independently.

Given the small radius the Barnharts wanted to live in, they knew the market was going to be “super tight,” Aaron says. They didn’t want a large house or to be in a condo building. Through conversations with friends at the church, the Barnharts learned that Evanston had recently changed its zoning to make accessory dwelling units (ADUs) — small-footprint housing commonly known as carriage houses or granny flats — easier to build. (The change took effect in 2020.) The church made a proposal: They could build an ADU in the backyard of one of the Reba properties.

The Federation of Southern Cooperatives, which represents Black farmers, landowners and co-ops in the southern USA, is headed for court in Texas today to fight against a blocking action that is holding back billions of dollars in debt relief to black farmers.

People across the globe engage in social and solidarity economics to help themselves, their community, and society on their own terms.

Well Clinic, an integrative psychotherapy and psychiatry company, is turning the tide on corporate greed by converting from private ownership to the nation’s first worker-owned mental health cooperative...

The newly formed Appalachian Producers Cooperative is seeking $2 million from Washington County to help create a regional meat processing center in Telford.

Proponents say the locally controlled facility, which will likely be located adjacent to the Jonesborough Flea Market off U.S. Highway 11E, will meet a crucial need for local producers of beef, pork and lamb who now face wait times of 12 to 18 months at regional processing facilities or who are being forced to ship their livestock to the Midwest for finishing and processing.