Guest post by Ra Criscitiello Over the past decade, gig economy companies like Uber and DoorDash have eroded hard-won employment protections by misclassifying workers as independent contractors. As a result, workers in the gig economy operate without basic rights like health insurance, unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, overtime, sick leave, or breaks. Gig economy workers are often subjected to unsafe, compromising…
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OWNERSHIP4ALL | Congressional Testimony
American Sustainable Business Council and 1worker1vote Testimony for The U.S. House Small Business Committee Hearing Challenges and Benefits of Employee-owned Small Businesses Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Chairwoman Velasquez, Ranking Member Chabot. The American Sustainable Business Council and 1worker1vote are pleased to submit this joint testimony for your hearing on the Challenges and Benefits of Employee-owned Small Businesses. We want to thank…
How stakeholders are taking back capitalism in 2020
Amy Cortese and Dennis Price write about seven “signals from a future that is already here” for ImpactAlpha: Local, inclusive and entrepreneurial: How stakeholders are taking back capitalism in 2020. The people are rising up. Protests erupted this year in cities around the globe, sparked by price hikes and service cuts, inequality and corruption, and affronts to human rights and…
The Business Roundtable’s public rejection of “Shareholder Primacy”
— by Dr. Steve Sleigh, 1worker1vote advisory board member The Council of Institutional Investors (CII) is the voice of progressive institutional investors and has fought hard to get asset owners (pensions, which are deferred workers wages) a seat at the table and hold management accountable. The Business Roundtable (BRT) statement, while a step in the right direction in acknowledging that…
A Look Back and Ahead for 1worker1vote and Our Partners
Michael Peck, along with several 1worker1vote co-founders and allies, has put together a look back at our movement’s work in 2018, and a vision of what’s ahead this year. Please take a look! Or, find the HTML version here.
An Emerging US/UK Union Co-ops Consensus
By Pat Conaty (Associate, Co-ops UK), Dr. Julian Manley (Chair, Preston Cooperative Development Network), Ed Mayo (Secretary General, Co-ops UK), and Dr. Cilla Ross (Vice Principal, Co-operative College, UK) A transatlantic consensus and two-way thought leadership transfer is emerging between the U.S. 1worker1vote and U.K. union co-op movements, with Cincinnati, Ohio, and Preston in the U.K. serving as models for social…
The Mondragón Experience to the Preston Model | Stir
The October 2018 issue of Stir, The Magazine for the New Economy, includes this article on Mondragon ideas in practice in the UK by Julian Manley. Order your copy if the Autumn 2018 issue “Co-operating out of Crisis.” You can also read a copy of the article here. — “The success of the Mondragón co-operatives in the Gipuzkoa region of the Basque Country remains an…
American Sustainable Business Institute’s Ownership4All Campaign
By David Levine, Carmen Huertas, Kristen Barker, Chris Cooper and Michael Peck The “Ownership4All” Campaign launched by the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) & 1worker1vote, an ASBC member, seeks to advance policy at the national, state and local level to support worker ownership starting with rural and urban underserved communities and regions. The American Sustainable Business Council is a growing…
Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies | Harvard Business Review
The Harvard Business Review published “Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies” by Peter Walsh, Michael Peck and Ibon Zugasti. In part, they write: Within the next decade, we expect worker- and employee-owned companies to grow in popularity thanks to three mutually reinforcing trends: First, renewed interest in ensuring the economic viability of local communities suggests that Baby Boomer owners about…
To Solve Food Access Problem, Cincy Neighborhood Looks to Model from Spain | NextCity
Zoe Sullivan writes about the Apple Street Market and Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative for NextCity: CUCI’s seeds were planted in 2009 following conversations between U.S. Steelworkers and representatives of Spain’s Mondragon cooperative business network, according to Kristen Barker, CUCI’s Executive Director. Mondragon’s network includes 120 worker cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain, employing over 70,000 worker-owners. The union cooperative model…
