1worker1vote.org will:
- Promote worker-owner jobs, projects & companies
- Educate innovators & incubators of hybrid ownership models such as the union co-op platform
- Design models that integrate equal share ownership businesses with progressive collective bargaining agreements
- Fund local worker-owner catalysts
- Grow inclusive networks and demonstrate leadership in specific geographies
- Steward municipal and county union co-op chapters
- Create a nationwide network of “vested” supporters
Our initial “show, not tell” tasks include:
- Support the development of union co-op initiatives
- Goal: 10 new cities per year over a five-year timeframe
- Develop a digital resource map
- Connect local & national worker-friendly funds, networks, businesses, workers
- Demonstrate and disseminate best practices
- Offer training resources to union co-ops
- Create a user-friendly union.coop website
- Open source platform for successful union-coop templates
- Assist existing businesses with transition to union co-op structure
- Provide technical assistance and mentors
- Educate faith, labor, community, and business groups and their networks about union co-op model
- Offer matriculation to the Mondragon University Online MBA through participating North American universities
