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We join the entire labor movement in mourning the passing of Leo W. Gerard, former international president of the United Steelworkers (USW).

The Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives’ 2024 Top Co-op Issues Survey Report contained many of the same issues from years past in the top spots, with lack of awareness once again in the lead.

Are you curious about how worker cooperatives and employee ownership really work? 🌱 

From 6–14 September 2025, the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum on Food Sovereignty was held in Kandy, Sri Lanka, bringing together around 750 delegates from 101 countries, six regional representatives, and fifteen global movements such as the People’s Health Movement (PHM), the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP), La Vía Campesina, and the World March of Women (WMW).

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Join the Co-op Clinic for a highly interactive training series tailored to both startups and established worker cooperatives, presented in English and Spanish with interpretation.

This 4.5 hours workshop series is a space for deepening education and growing capacity for worker-owners. There will be designated space for both start up coops and established coops to dive in further. Co-op support organizations and the co-op curious are welcome to attend, but the training will be oriented for worker-owners as the audience.

We did a soft-ish launch back in April 2025 in a rush to open with the publishing date of one of our biggest supporters (hey Rob!). We sent a sheepish email, suggesting you should roll with us, when we’ve given no reason for you to do so. So. We’re making an effort to reconnect, reach out, and let y’all know that self-publishing (r)evolution exists. WE cannot do it without YOU. And WE need this more now than ever. Expect to hear more from us and see more of us in the coming weeks/months/years. In your inbox with updates.

In Vancouver, BC, a group of video game developers was looking for a way to work together that would allow them to share profits, be transparent about their salaries, and implement democracy into their workplace.

Forming a co-op was a natural fit.

The group formed Resonance Games, a worker co-op they feel is not just a great fit for themselves, but for their industry as a whole.

When I visited Cultivator Bookstore in the small town of Murfreesboro, North Carolina, Caroline told me that the property the bookstore sits on is an old grist mill and mill pond where she and her dad used to fish. Today, Caroline has turned an old house on the property into a non-profit bookstore and gathering space. “We opened it as a bookstore because there is no place to buy books in this county. You have to drive up to Virginia or go an hour to Roanoke Rapids just to get books here,” she explains.

“We were encouraging cities to start thinking about integrating climate action throughout their entire structure before that was a thing,” says Emi Do. “And now that’s become the norm.”

Do is a marketing and communications specialist at SSG, where its 30 members help decision-makers confront the climate crisis by providing services that span greenhouse gas inventories, carbon budgeting, climate mitigation and adaptation planning, scenario modelling and implementation support.

The Neighborhood Co-op Grocery traces its roots back to the early 1980s, when a handful of friends formed a buying club that gathered in living rooms to split bulk orders of food. Francis Murphy, now the general manager, was part of those early days. A three-time SIU graduate, Murphy has been involved with the Co-op for more than three decades.