Paul and Jay Creston Davis of the Advanced Studies for Global Studies discuss the conference taking place on July 16th that will see leading activists and intellectuals from around the world converge on Athens, Greece
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Let’s examine the issue of self-employment tax in worker-owner co-ops structured as LLCs or as cooperative corporations. This can get complicated quickly, and there are lots of confusing elements, but we will try to break it down simply.
WORKER COOPERATIVES
Facilitated by Immanuel Ness & Christopher Michael
Tuesdays, Sep. 1st to Dec. 22nd, 2015 from 6:15 to 8:45pm
BALLE followers are well aware that shared ownership is crucial for building real prosperity in our local economies.
Our first stab at this was a model we’d inherited from other companies we’d worked at: have salary bands which match up to the skill and experience of the current staff, match that to the available cash, and set salaries accordingly. At first, we actually started off with an approach that was even more naive – rather than salary bands, we had “levels”.
The conference will run from Sunday evening, September 20th through Tuesday, September 22nd at the Clark Kerr Conference Center on the UC Berkeley campus. Lunch is included in the conference cost, which is only $175 if you register before September 4th!
A local nonprofit is looking to create more jobs for residents at the Astoria Houses by starting "worker cooperatives," where employees will have the option to buy shares and become part-owners of the companies they work for.
The very nature of the technology involved, with a comparatively low capital investment and dependency on particular geographical features, makes it ideally suited to community ownership. The price of a typical installation varies, depending largely on size, with a typical installation costing £5,000-£8,000 per kW.
Umbrella House has come a long way from the late 1980s, when a handful of squatters broke int
Co-op movement leader, mentor, optimist. Born on April 5, 1952, in Ottawa; died on Feb. 3, 2015, in Ottawa, of a heart attack, aged 62.
Young entrepreneurs are taking charge of their careers with a grassroots marketing cooperative they own and run.
The Peer to Peer Foundation ran a brief summary of "Think Outside the Boss: Cooperative Alternatives to the Sharing Economy" ... a video recording of a panel discussion under that title held at the Solidarity Economy Civic Hall in NY City. The article on the P2P site was "Trebor Scholz et al on Cooperative Alternatives to the Sharing Economy" but I think we should remember this item by its original title.
