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Worker Cooperatives

Businesses that are owned and democratically controlled by their workers/employees (called "worker-owners").

March 21, 2022

A Cooperative Ecosystem and How Unions Build Power

Rebecca Lurie, co-author of the Union Co-ops Toolkit presents the ways in which Unions and Cooperatives can support each other to build worker power and strengthen each other's movements.

March 14, 2022

Cliff Rosenthal on CDFIs, Co-op Development, and Democratizing Finance

Co-op advocate and Author Clifford N. Rosenthal discusses the role CDFIs play in the development of co-ops, and his book "Democratizing Finance: Origins of the Community Development Financial Institutions Movement."

February 28, 2022

Prepare your Worker Co-op for Tax Season

In this video, Bruce Mayer of Wegner CPAs reviews key tips to filing your taxes as a worker cooperative, how to avoid problems with the IRS, a new tax law that could change how you do business and answers questions from cooperators doing their taxes.

February 15, 2022

A Crisis of Jurisdiction in the Economy

An interview with Gopal Dayaneni on the Seed Commons and building community power for a just transition.

February 3, 2022

Scaling Co-operatives Through a Multi-Stakeholder Network

This case study analyses a multi-stakeholder network of single-stakeholder co-ops that emerged in the Colorado solar energy industry that could be a replicable model for scaling co-operative businesses despite challenges of capital access.

January 31, 2022

Ontario Co-operative Association & London Brewing Co-op

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the way co-ops do business in Ontario? Are there new ways of collaborating or communicating that are leading to innovation and growth of the sector?

January 27, 2022

Labor Law, Co-ops, and Innovation

Attorney Neil Helfman discusses his chapter in the Sustainable Economies Law Center's 2021 Legal Guide to Worker Cooperatives, as well as his thoughts on worker cooperatives in construction and climate-wise, green building, and the need for professionals to step up in the coop movement.

January 24, 2022

A Union Tookit for Cooperative Solutions

The paper includes seven case studies of interaction and collaboration between labor unions and worker-owned entities, in which unions get out their tools to apply their power and capacity toward worker ownership for expanding avenues for worker power.