Does anyone have the knowledge to do a bit of free online consulting on professional laser hair removal machines for me?
I'm planning on starting a #workercoop trans beauty salon.
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#workercoop
Worker Co-op Weekend
Thornbridge Outdoors, Peak District
16-18 May 2025
Our theme this year is about building power through mutual learning and coalition. Worker cooperation is not just a way to improve the everyday lives of workers. Co-ops can strengthen the wider movement for social, economic and climate justice. In the process, we are building the infrastructure for goods and services that underpins a different kind of society.
Worker Co-op Weekend 2025 Announcement!
Our annual Spring gathering brings together worker cooperators and supporters to reconnect, celebrate, be inspired, learn - and do business.
If you believe in the #Fediverse , if you believe in #decentralization and removing power from authoritarians and their enablers, why don't you believe in doing so in your workplace?
Why does the owner get to sit back on their laurels while YOU make THEM money?
Start a Union!
Join a Union!
https://www.iww.org/
https://uaw.org/join/
Convert your job into a worker co-op!
Join a worker co-op!
https://www.democracyatwork.info/
Chris interviews worker-owners at the 2024 Worker Co-op Conference in Chicago, Illinois.
#WorkerCoop #WorkersOwned
https://geo.coop/articles/interviews-2024-worker-co-op-conference
With all my random thoughts about worker cooperatives, I haven't specifically mentioned what I have in mind.
I'm kind of a broken-down old sysadmin. I can't really code and I'm not an engineer, and a lot of the intermediate-level type of work I was doing has been offshored or has morphed into SRE/DevOps.
Most of the clouds now in use, AWS, Azure, VMWare and even Google, are proprietary, and I loathe what they stand for.
@tinker I've also been frustrated with the enthusiasm for the CEO killer, because the problem isn't some stuffed shirt.
My sister, who almost died from medical austerity, votes right-wing. The real problem is how the system gets inside our heads to gain our support in ways we don't always understand.
I agree that the way forward is for people to come together and build alternatives to organizations which have no incentive to take care of us.
There is a third option beyond state ownership and shareholder owned corporations; it's worker and consumer cooperatives. #communism #capitalism #mutualism #workercoop #workerowned #anarchism #socialism #marketsocialism
These kind of events organized by USFWC are a great place to ask more details about how to get started building a worker co-operative https://info.usworker.coop/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=672
Policies that result in the median voter paying more #taxes are difficult. The #democrats need a #policy vision that doesn't raise taxes on the median #voter
Policy ideas
- Tax exemptions/deductions for #WorkerCooperatives and investment in worker #coops
- Special tax exempt status for #WorkerCoops
- Use corporate tax revenue to buy some shares of that company and put those in a trust democratically governed by workers in that company.
As they say on The Mandalorian: “This is the way.”
#WorkerCoop
From: @NilaJones
https://zeroes.ca/@NilaJones/113416630944330331
“‘I don’t think you solve the systemic economic problems just with worker co-ops,’ [John Duda of @redemmas] says. ‘There needs to be a larger context in which worker co-ops are embedded — a larger fight. But I think there’s something really important and really precious about worker co-ops as a laboratory or a kind of learning.’”
@OsitaNwanevu writing for In These Times: https://inthesetimes.com/article/worker-cooperatives-baltimore-maryland
#cooperatives #workerCoop #workerOwnership #workplaceDemocracy #RedEmmas #Baltimore #OsitaNwanevu
:TwinPines: Limeleaf Worker Collective is a tech #WorkerCoop started by disgruntled software devs. Co-owner and co-founder John Luther talks about how and why they made the decision to create a democratic workplace.
I've been trying to document my learnings from starting a worker coop. Check out my "Year Two" post below!
https://joelleichty.com/2024/07/21/starting-a-worker-cooperative-from-scratch-two-years-later/
We need to have a lot more discussion about a longer term path towards becoming a worker cooperative. And providing support to get there.
There are details around financing, legal structure, startup vs existing, decision making, and more that have to get solved. This stuff takes time and in some cases a certain scale.
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Former employees of The Escapist are celebrating 6 months as a #WorkerCoop!
#SecondWind
:TwinPines: 20 years ago today, the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives was born! 🥳 🎂
In honor of this anniversary, we'll be collecting a number of articles and interviews looking back on two decades of the US #WorkerCoop movement.
https://geo.coop/articles/us-worker-cooperative-movement-turns-20
Congratulations to #Mirlo co-founder @arod who'll be teaching A History of Jazz, American Popular Music, Introduction to Electronic and Computer Music, and Interactive Sound Art with Electronics next year at Wellesley College! Read more about his updates below.
“Independent companies… are following a model pioneered… by an Oregon produce distributor (Sundance Natural Foods)… U.S. business owners choosing to sell or gift their company to a trust, instead of selling to a person or another company, so they can protect its values... The model is called a “perpetual purpose trust”.”
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/05/16/perpetual-purpose-business-trust-oregon-companies/
#PerpetualPurposeTrust #PurposeTrust #Capitalism #Finance #SocialFinance #Oregon #ORPol #Eugene #SundanceNaturalFoods #WorkerOwned #WorkerCoop
The #Vermont #EmployeeOwnership Conference is coming up on May 31 in Burlington #VT. It's the largest annual gathering of folks from local #WorkerCoops, #ESOP companies, and folks considering broad-based employee-ownership, and will be keynoted by Melissa Hoover of the Democracy at Work Institute.
Registration is here, and DM me if cost is a barrier, as we are happy to offer discounted tix.
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