Worker Cooperatives

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.

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

An interview with Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard

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.

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?

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.

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.

How cooperatives have helped rebuild the infrastructure and trust of Rwandans after the 1994 genocide.

A look back on 20 years of the recovered factories movement in Argentina.

Michael Lebowitz shares his perspective on the social economic models in Venezuela and Yugoslavia. Lebowitz highlights the importance of self-actualization through protagonism and how the most successful of these models focused on solidarity over self-interest.