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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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…
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Sofia Arana Shares Economic Democracy Lessons From Basque Country
By Rebecca Lurie Last week, CWOP hosted a conversation with Sofia Arana from the Basque Country. She shared a qualitative comparison of US tax codes and those of the Basque region in Spain as ways and reasons we have such difficult uptake of just and equitable economic development in the US. Her chapter in the…
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Event: Putting Democracy to Work: How Women Lead Worker Cooperatives (7/24)
Wednesday, July 24, 2019: 6:30-8:00 PM CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies 25 W. 43rd Street, Room 18A-B New York, NY 10036 Featuring: Adria Powell, CEO and President, Cooperative Home Care Associates Maru Bautista, Director of the Cooperative Development Project, Center of Family Life Rebecca Lurie, CUNY SLU Professor, Moderator Join us for a…
