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  • Dolphin school and BCC partnership

    Dolphin Schools Brooklyn Communities Collaborative and Community Worker Ownership Project Fellowship As a culminating event for our graduate certificate in Workplace Democracy and Community Ownership five Fellows pitched their ideas to a convening of colleagues, comrades and “Dolphins”, (note this was not your standard Shark Tank). With stakeholders, community partners and some financial investors, we…

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  • Partnerships Expand Education for Worker Cooperatives!

     The semester has taken off with some strong partnership with the Community and Worker Ownership Project. In early September we presented at the US Federation of Worker Coops at an in-person conference in Philadelphia where we partnered with many to explore the ways and reasons to pursue unionized cooperatives. Speakers included Richard Wolff from Democracy…

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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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