by WCN | May 28, 2022 | Other_Articles
By Hell Gate NYC – May 17, 2022 “You decide what kind of job you have.” Clara Calvo, a worker-owner and home care worker, with her dog, Poochie, in her Washington Heights apartment. (Peter Senzamici/Hell Gate) Worker cooperatives are a business...
by WCN | May 28, 2022 | Other_Articles
By Hell Gate NYC – May 24, 2022 The 32-year-old mother of three had dreams of starting her own business when moving to the U.S. from Mexico 15 years ago. With the co-op, now she has. Natividad Aguilar, 32, is a worker-owner at a cleaning company in Washington...
by WCN | May 18, 2022 | Other_Articles
By Rachel Gertz – YES Magazine! – MAY 10, 2022 ILLUSTRATION BY KLAUS VEDFELT/GETTY IMAGES The healthiest and happiest companies in the world are democracies. At Louder Than Ten, the project management training company that I co-founded more than 13...
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...
