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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NYC COOPERATIVE SOLUTIONS WORKING GROUP – UPDATE
This October the Cooperative Solutions Working Group at CWOP hosted our monthly meeting on cooperative solutions, with a targeted examination of cooperative models that support workers in the gig economy. These regular meetings are intended to bring together those who represent workers, industry and communities to collectively explore and learn how we may build community…
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CWOP PROVIDES EDUCATION TRAINING AND INFORMATION
This month the Community and Worker Ownership Project presented at the National Cooperative Business Association annual Impact Conference. https://ncbaclusa.coop/ We are dedicated to promoting, through education and engagement a deepening awareness of cooperative models that raise workers’ collective power, knowledge and voice. We were delighted to be part of this conference to deepen the…
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DURING COVID CWOP HAS BEEN BUILDING THE NYC WORKING GROUP ON COOPERATIVE SOLUTIONS
In the spring, a month into the shutdown, CWOP’s founder, Rebecca Lurie, was invited to be on the Mayor’s Advisory Council for Labor and Workforce Development. While much of those council meetings were about the different ways workers all over our city were being most impacted and how they can be protected, we also discussed…
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COMMUNITY AND WORKER OWNERSHIP PROJECT (CWOP) INTERN, LESLY CALLE
We are thrilled to announce the Community & Worker Ownership Project (CWOP) has a new intern that will be working with us on communications and research. Lesly Calle has joined our team! She is a fourth-year Macaulay Honors student at the City College of New York pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Economics. For the summer…
