Michael Peck was interviewed by Vernon Oaks for Everything Co-op in October. Listen to the interview where they discuss the Union Coop Symposium, 1worker1vote.org, and Mondragon Corporation, the largest worker cooperative in the world: http://chirb.it/vcpJyB
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Cincinnati’s experiment with an economy that works for everyone | Waging Nonviolence
By Gilbert Geoff With the 2016 presidential campaigns underway, economic populism has taken center stage. Bernie Sanders, calling for a $1 trillion investment in a sustainable infrastructure jobs program along with publically funded health care and college education, has forced Hillary Clinton to offer vague support for similar measures, while even some Republican candidates, like Marco Rubio, have asserted the…
Report from Mondragon Cooperatives
Mondragon cooperatives in industrial sector created 1,000 jobs in 2014. The headlines: The Corporation’s cooperatives have 74,117 workers. Last year, sales totalled about €11,000 million, while investment amounted to €345 million. Internationalisation continues, with 125 production subsidiaries abroad – 3 more than the year before. With 479 patent families, Mondragon accounts for 25% patents in the Basque Country, participating in…
Pope Francis: Speech at World Meeting of Popular Movements
Pope Francis spoke on July9, 2015 at the World Meeting of Popular Movements, taking place in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The inspiring speech included the following: “The first task is to put the economy at the service of peoples. Human beings and nature must not be at the service of money. Let us say NO to an economy of exclusion and inequality,…
Pope Francis and the Just Third Way | Homiletic & Pastoral Review
From the Homiletic & Pastoral Review, Pope Francis faces many challenges in his efforts to modernize the application of Catholic social doctrine to today’s problems, particularly the growing global wealth, income, and power gap. His greatest challenge, however, may be overcoming a prevailing ignorance or misunderstanding of the basic moral principles that make lasting, systemic solutions possible. As taught in…
Black Populists, Organized Labor, Cooperatives & Worker Control
1:1 co-founder Michael Peck was on a panel about union coops this week during the Labor Research and Action Network conference. One of his co-panelists was Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ph.D. Professor at CUNY and author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice. We wanted to share the slides from her presentation on Black Populists, Organized Labor, Cooperatives and Worker Control (PDF).…
1worker1vote.org Principles
We’re often asked why union co-ops are a good fit for the American business ecosystem and why workers and entrepreneurs would be interested in pursuing this type of corporate structure. To help answer that, we’ve been working on a list of 1worker1vote.org principles: We do not ask for any government hand-outs or programs, only for a level playing field. We believe…
Celebrating the Founder of Mondragon’s Centennial
The inspiration behind and founder of the Mondragon Cooperatives, Father José María Arizmendiarrieta, was born 100 years ago this month. As part of the celebration and remembrance, the magazine that he founded in 1960, TU Lankide, has produced a special issue exploring Arizmendiarrieta’s history, philosophy and action. Originally published in Spanish, the publishers have also provided an English translation of this special issue of TU…
Prosperity for the Long Term: Cincinnati Union Coop Initiative
Reposted with permission from Democratic Promise. By John Clay Cincinnati is an incubator of locally-rooted, democratically-run businesses. This spring I visited with some of the people who are making it happen. Ellen Vera and Phil Amadon, both of Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative, or CUCI, joined me for lunch and conversation at a local Cincinnati cafe. Ellen also is an organizer…
What If Uber Were a Unionized, Worker-Owned Co-Op? | YES! Magazine
YES! Magazine recently talked with one of our co-founders about union co-ops for their article, “What If Uber Were a Unionized, Worker-Owned Co-Op? These Denver Cabbies Are Making It Happen.” “The labor movement has to bring ownership and equity into the picture,” Peck says, “because otherwise we’re going to be reduced to fighting for less and less.” Partnerships like the…
