By Joe Maniscalco Bronx, NY – Innovative worker cooperatives throughout the five boroughs have gotten a significant boost this year from both Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration and a progressive City Council. Now, advocates for hungry worker-owned businesses hope that organized labor starts to embrace them equally as well. The City of New York’s prior $1.2 budgetary commitment is currently…
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Outperforming Structural Inequalities
There are two major and intertwined, socio-cultural movements driving local economic sovereignty change on a nationwide basis regardless of red or blue state affiliation. The first is land and rooftop-based community solar and the second is the ubiquitous springing-up of worker cooperatives. Connecting these two transformation trends can center the shifting and often contradictory thematic currents driving populist energy and…
Videos from NYC Worker Cooperative Conference 2014
The New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives has added videos from last month’s conference to their YouTube page. We’d like you to specifically watch the following two sessions: Building a Worker Cooperative Economy City Support for Economic Democracy Great, inspiring work being done by all!
GRITtv Coverage of NYC Council Meeting on Co-ops
GRITtv with Laura Flanders ran exclusive interviews with Councilmember Maria Arroyo, Chris Michael of the NYC Network of Worker Co-ops and Miquela Craytor of the NYCEDC following the New York City Council meeting on cooperative businesses. Watch all three: Maria del Carmen Arroyo – “Worker Co-ops to Combat Poverty” Chris Michael – “Building Democracy in the Workplace” Miquela Craytor – “Economic…
Melissa Risser Testimony Before NYC Council on Worker Coops
Testimony by Melissa Risser, CUNY Law Community and Economic Development Clinic (CEDC), before the New York City Council, Community Development Committee, February 24, 2014 Hearing: Worker Cooperatives – Is this A Model That Can Lift Families Out of Poverty? Hon. Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, Chair Good morning. My name is Melissa Risser and I am a public interest attorney working with CUNY Law…
Carmen Huertas-Noble Testimony Before NYC Council on Worker Coops
Testimony by Carmen Huertas-Noble, Director of CUNY School of Law’s Community and Economic Development Clinic, before the New York City Council, Community Development Committee, February 24, 2014 Hearing: Worker Cooperatives – Is this A Model That Can Lift Families Out of Poverty? Hon. Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, Chair Hello, my name is Carmen Huertas-Noble. I am an Associate Professor of Law and the founding…
