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Worker Cooperatives

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

July 16, 2020

Cooperating Through Crisis

Gordon Edgar of Rainbow Grocery Co-op in San Francisco discusses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their business.

July 13, 2020

Advancing Latina Economic Empowerment for the Benefit of All

The LIFT Economy podcast interviews Claudia Arroyo of Prospera about how that organization works to empower Latina women through small business and cooperative values.

July 2, 2020

How to Turn Your Non-Profit into a Worker Co-op

Kim Grveles tells the story of how disgruntled workers at a Wisconsin non-profit formed a worker co-op to do the same work they were doing as employees, but with all the benefits of ownership.

June 11, 2020

Making Worker Co-ops "Antifragile"

The principle of spreading losses is important to expand upon to make the worker co-operative movement resistant to, and even benefited by, economic disruptions.

May 21, 2020

Shared Capital and Solidarity

Executive Director of Shared Capital Cooperative, Christina Jennings, discusses how Shared Capital operates and how they have been acting to serve their members and the wider cooperative community during the COVID 19 pandemic.

May 7, 2020

The Up & Go Story

A short film about the Up & Go cooperative home-cleaning app that is co-owned by three worker co-ops in New York City.

May 4, 2020

Worker-Owned Streaming Service Launches

A co-founder of Means TV answers questions about their worker co-op.

April 30, 2020

Check-in with Lauren Karaffa

Sarah Eppley checks in with Lauren Karaffa of the Brighter Days Collective in Washington D.C.

April 27, 2020

Check-in with Matthew Epperson

Matthew Epperson of the Georgia Cooperative Development Center checks-in about how things are going during the pandemic.

April 23, 2020

Check-in with Mica Fisher

Mica Fisher checks in from NYC to talk about how the coronavirus is effecting things there.