CWOP
The Community and Worker Ownership Project (CWOP) supports efforts percolating around the nation and New York City focused on worker-owned cooperatives, economic democracy, and community planning. In this age of burgeoning inequality and pervasive challenges to political and workplace democracy, this project supports projects in worker participation and control, as well as grassroots leadership in community development in collaboration with a broad array of organizational stakeholders, including unions, worker centers, community-based organizations, businesses and worker cooperatives.
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How Unions and Cooperative Together Build Worker Power
How Unions and Cooperative Together Build Worker Power By Brandi Alduk On April 26th, the SLU Alumni Association invited us to have a conversation about our project at CWOP. We focused the discussion on unions and Co-ops together to help facilitate stronger connections between workers and control of their industries. We were joined by SLU…
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Employees at REI Co-op move to unionize!
The Community and Worker Ownership Project stands with workers and their chosen representation to exercise their power at work. We need unions to help us be the best we can be as business pressures can otherwise push workers’ safety and dignity to the margins. Unions protect workers’ interests and raise the floor for workers and…
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CWOP releases “A Union Toolkit for Cooperative Solutions”
A Union Toolkit for Cooperative Solutions 11/2/21 As many readers of this blog know, as COVID-19 took hold in New York City, I was tapped to join the Labor and Workforce Development Sector Advisory Council convened by the City tasked to communicate broadly the day-to-day emergency management of the pandemic and its impacts on working…
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Co-op Impact Conference – October 2021 Scholarship available: deadline September 8th We are excited to share news about an opportunity being offered by the Cooperative Development Foundation. The CDF developed the New Cooperator Scholarship program to provide individuals interested in learning about cooperatives with the opportunity to attend the 2021 Cooperative IMPACT Conference hosted…
