Italian precarious workers between self-organization and self-advocacy
The scenario we see today in the labor market in Italy is composed of a progressive proliferation of non-standard contracts. This involves first and foremost a problem of citizenship and welfare, due to the lower or almost non- existent possibility of access to social rights associated with these types of contracts. Faced with this situation, over the last ten years, Italy has seen the emergence of a complex social movement to counter precariousness.
Denver’s First Resident-Owned Mobile Home Park
It took two years, but in the Westwood neighborhood of Denver, an 80-family community of mobile homes is on track to become the first resident-owned manufactured housing park in Denver.
Seeing the Elephant: Cross-Sectoral Cooperative Awareness and Opportunity
January 22, 2025 2:00pm ETLocation Information:
ZoomIntended Audience: Geared for all cooperative types.
Free for NSAC Members, NCBA Members, and Non-Members
Get ready to kick off the United Nations 2025 International Year of Cooperatives! NSAC is thrilled to host an unforgettable, free webinar that celebrates the power of co-ops!
Session Description:
Ecuadorian Cleaning Cooperative gets off the ground in Massachusetts
In Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a town whose population hovers around 42,000, a small co-op development body is trying to make a big difference. Created in 2017 by wife and husband Nicole Fecteau and Michael Hitchcock, Roots Dreams and Mustard Seeds aims to empower vulnerable community members through economic participation and ownership opportunities.
Decolonization and the Law
We support our Indigenous partners to reunite with their ancestral lands and practice land return and rematriation. Our land justice “clients” are more like partners, collaborators, or co-conspirators, and we are honored to be in relationship with them.
The evolution of cooperatives in Iowa
In Iowa, cooperatives are a vital part of the agricultural landscape.
“Cooperatives were created to provide services and competitive pricing to the people that would benefit from that — their farmer-members,” says Dave Holm, executive director of the Iowa Institute of Cooperatives. “That has not changed despite the evolution in the agricultural industry.”
Workers Win Union Election at Mississippi Market Co-op
When Rowan Garrigan aged out of her mother’s health insurance, she joined her sister working for the local grocery co-op, which she knew offered benefits.
“I always liked organic food, I always liked co-ops,” she said. She has worked at the West Seventh Street location of Mississippi Market Co-op for the past three and a half years, first in the deli. She says she enjoys her work now as a cheese buyer, cutting slices and researching products.
