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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…
Michael Peck Interview | Everything Co-op
Vernon Oakes interviewed Michael Peck on Everything Co-op on May 18th. Vernon and Michael discussed “MRAGA” – Make Rural America Great Again: An Infrastructure Road-Map for Rural America’s High-Road Institutional Stewards. Listen to the interview.
Sustainable Jobs, Sustainable Local Economies | The Abundant Community
John McKnight and Peter Block talk with Michael and Kristen about how co-operatives are emerging as powerful forces of change and the role citizen-workers have in bringing new opportunities and family-sustaining jobs to local neighborhoods. Listen to their conversation via the Abundant Community.
Unions and Cooperatives: How Workers Can Survive and Thrive | Truthout
Brian Van Slyke from the TESA Collective published Unions and Cooperatives: How Workers Can Survive and Thrive on Truthout. In part, he writes: The benefits from this collaboration have already started to bloom. The Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative, made possible because of the USW and Mondragon partnership, has helped launch two cooperatives: Our Harvest and Sustainergy. And even more are on the way.…
Sharing Economy Is Redefined During Two Simultaneous Events, Nov. 13 and 14
– Union Co-op Symposium and Platform Cooperativism Event Offer Look at What’s Happening on the Ground and on the Web in the New Economy – Cincinnati, Ohio and New York City – The two most exciting gatherings around worker-ownership in the country are happening at the same time this month: the Union Co-op Symposium in Cincinnati and the Platform Cooperativism convention…
Everything Co-op’s Interview with Michael Peck
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
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…
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…
