Please download the PDF document to learn more about all that 1worker1vote was up to during 2021! 1worker1vote 2021 Annual Activity Summary of Synergy & Time-Intersecting Movement Alliances, Campaigns, Events, Presentations & Publications
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Chuck Snyder Remembrances
In honored memory of Chuck Snyder, President and CEO, National Cooperative Bank (NCB) who passed this weekend, from 1worker1vote: This is very sad news for the U.S. cooperative community and for all who care about building a fair & sustaining socioeconomic construct based on cooperative values and practice stopping inequalities and exclusion at the gate. Chuck came from Reading, PA,…
White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment | July 2021
Thanks to the convening power of the American Sustainable Business Council and its singular policy leadership on worker ownership and the High Road workplace orchestrated by Denise Bower and David Levine, ASBC executive committee board member and President/Cofounder respectively, two of our 1worker1vote movement union co-ops – worX Printing Cooperative and Sustainergy Cooperative – presented to the White House Task…
The Liberatory Potential of Union Co-ops | Nonprofit Quarterly
By Carmen Huertas-Noble, Missy Risser-Lovings and Christopher Adams Reposted with permission from the Nonprofit Quarterly In this time of COVID-19 and an economic crisis that disproportionately impacts BIPOC communities, many are realizing we need an economy that is inclusive and rooted in solidarity to achieve transformative economic justice. An economy based on solidarity must include alternatives to capitalist firms, such…
From the Union Coop Organizing Front
“I am drawn to the concept of coops in part because I think with some federal policy work and more Labor comfort with this model through scaled positive experiences, a union coop could be the ideal employer structure to build both Union and Cooperative membership. A union gives our members a voice and decision-making power, a worker coop gives them ownership…
The Economic Underdevelopment of Central Appalachia
Presented at the Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) Virtual Annual Convention Panel Discussion – Building a Worker Cooperative Ecosystem in Central Appalachia by J. Todd Nesbitt, Ph.D., Professor of Geography, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania Introduction I would first like to offer a big thanks to all of the ASA folks involved in organizing this virtual conference – a massive task.…
Press Release | Global Fair Trade Enterprises & Cooperatives Including Worker Cooperatives Joining Forces
Please tweet your support!: #FairTrade + #Coops = win/win! We are joining forces to help more fair trade companies become coops, and to help more coops become fair trade supporters! https://ctt.ac/kL7j1+ Mission: The global COVID-19 pandemic is proving three compelling truths. First, that there can be no healthy economies without healthy peoples. Second, that flattening contagion curves compels we flatten inequality pandemic…
The 1worker1vote Movement’s Stakeholder Economy Blueprint
Triple COVID-19, Racism & Inequality Pandemics Three virus pandemics threaten “humanity@work”: racism, economic class inequality and novel COVID-19. Flattening coronavirus contagion curves compels we flatten inequality and racism pandemic curves concurrently. No healthy economy without a healthy people” is more than a mantra, it is the pandemic survival Magna Carta. COVID-19 has exposed that “essential workers” are often BIPOC communities…
Stories from the Organizing Front: Denver Colorado’s Union Taxi & Green Taxi Union Coops
Origins and Lessons Learned Guest post by Lisa Bolton, Vice President, Communications Workers of America (CWA) In the very beginnings of this multi-year, transformative project (2005-2008), CWA Local 7777 in Denver where I served as President (elected in 2008), leased a small office to Pro Taxi, a Denver Taxi Association group formed to address taxi drivers’ workplace issues. Over 90% of…
ASBC National Conversation on Racism in America: Remarks by MaryAnne Howland
With her permission, we are sharing the opening remarks MaryAnne Howland gave at the launch of the American Sustainable Business Council’s (ASBC) National Conversation on Racism in America on June 10, 2020: Welcome business leaders! Thank you all for joining us this morning, afternoon or evening depending on where you are in the world. Welcome to our first in a series…
