WORKER-OWNED

At Equal Exchange we all walk around like we own the place. That’s because we all do! Our co-op has over 100 worker-owners, each with an equal stake - and an equal vote - in our business. …

Worker-Owned Cooperatives - A Resilient Model for Grassroots Economic Development

… One powerful, but underutilized approach is to build community-based cooperative businesses. This model delivers increased earnings, provides better benefits, and creates asset building opportunities for low-wage workers. What’s more, it is a model that has proven to be a workable solution during this challenging economic time because it creates the very economic activity that generates opportunity for workers. …

The Veterinary Cooperative

… An independent veterinary practice’s ability to turn a profit is becoming more and more difficult. Big box stores, pharmacies and online providers have the ability to leverage their purchasing power to procure goods and services at a lower cost. As an independent purchaser you cannot obtain the same pricing. However by pooling the purchasing power of our large group of members, TVC can obtain the best pricing for your independent veterinary business, making you competitive and more profitable. …

Worker Owned Businesses Point to New Forms of Ownership

“Shift Change”: Creating Economic Democracy Through Workplace Cooperatives

Shift Change brings you behind the scenes of some of the most exciting cooperative successes in Europe and the United States. This is a movement that’s creating jobs, strengthening communities and showing that another economy is possible. It’s a movement that’s taking off - and Shift Change is the way to understand what’s happening. - Sarah Van Gelder, YES! Magazine …

Cooperatives and Community Work Are Part of American DNA

… Creating transformational change is not only about protesting what we do not like and resisting and refusing to cooperate with the power structure; it also requires us to simultaneously build the world we want. If big-finance capitalism does not serve the people, what will? The mass of people who struggle through their daily lives need to know there is an alternative available that will meet their needs and improve their lives. People who urgently require employment, housing, food and other immediate needs can work together now to solve their problems in ways that also undermine big-finance capitalism and build democratic and sustainable systems. …

Mutual and cooperative insurers outperform the industry

… Insurance is the largest sector in the global cooperative movement, closely followed by agriculture, banking and retail cooperatives; and it employs more than a million people worldwide. The European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE) in the 2012 edition of their recently released World Co-operative Monitor found that insurers contributed USD 977 billion of the USD 1,975 billion combined turnover of the largest 300 cooperatives and mutuals. …

Wheatsville’s Second Store to Feature Demo Areas, Bakery, Expanded Café

Imagine being able to attend a cooking demonstration, get all your grocery shopping done and meet a friend for lunch all in one locally-owned location – that location is soon to be the second store of hometown grocer cooperative Wheatsville Food Co-op. …