by WCN | May 18, 2022 | Other_Articles
By Buffalo Rising – January 13, 2022 The African Heritage Food Cooperative (AHFC) is planning to open a Buffalo location at 238 Carlton Street next year. We’re now getting a look at what the new facility will look like. The co-op will reuse the 3,838 sq. ft....
by WCN | May 7, 2022 | Other_Articles
Designed to promote collective ownership and democratic decision-making, worker cooperatives may offer workers a path toward better pay and control over working conditions by Sydney Pereira PRISMREPORTS – April 11th, 2022 (iStock) Five years ago, the only...
by WCN | May 7, 2022 | Other_Articles
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash by Kateri Gutierrez Non-Profit Quarterly – April 27, 2022 Last February, 22 percent of small businesses were forced to shut their doors due to financial strain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Brick-and-mortar businesses that...
by WCN | Apr 25, 2022 | Other_Articles
By JACOB SCHERMERHORN Rochester Beacon – April 20, 2022 Opening a new business is hard enough under normal circumstances. Opening a vegan cooperative cafe during a pandemic is an entirely different difficulty, the owners of Anyone’s Cafe say. The...
by WCN | Jan 30, 2022 | Other_Articles
Next City Podcast – November 24, 2021 You’ve probably heard complaints about Uber and Lyft from drivers who spend all day working for the apps but who aren’t full-time employees. A group of drivers started asking, “Why don’t we have our own app?” And...