🌍 As the Latrobe Valley shifts from coal, could a green worker's cooperative be the key to a sustainable future? Join the conversation on building an economy powered by people, not just profit. #GreenEnergy #WorkerCooperatives https://phys.org/news/2025-05-latrobe-valley-coal-jobs-green.html
#workercooperatives
We need to buy as much land as possible #Landtrust #WorkerCooperatives #Communals #Agriculture #CommunityProduction
Richard Wolff, an American economist and professor emeritus at UMass Amherst, is known for his sharp critiques of economic inequality and his advocacy for worker cooperatives. Through his books, lectures, and public talks, he champions economic democracy and explores alternative economic models that empower workers and challenge the status quo.
#RichardWolff #Economics #EconomicInequality #WorkerCooperatives #EconomicDemocracy #AlternativeEconomy #SocialJustice #Capitalism #WealthInequality #CooperativeEconomy #ProgressiveEconomics #FairEconomy #SystemChange #changeoftheguard
In his _Letter from a Birmingham Jail_, #MartinLutherKing emphasizes the importance of #EconomicJustice alongside #SocialJustice and criticizes how white supremacy is happy to take wealth from the hands of Black folks as customers while refusing to provide them with good jobs.
I just ran the numbers for one of my tech #WorkerCooperatives with open-comp + opt-in for self-identifying along several axes.
Non-white team members comprise 53% of our staff and receive ~56% of our total compensation.
#Cooperatives #TechCooperatives #TechCoop #WorkerCoops #SolidarityEconomy
Scaling up democratic ownership: Adapting the employee ownership model to build truly democratic businesses
#WorkerCoops #WorkerCooperatives #coops #cooperatives #labor #unions #politics #leftism #leftist #leftwing #capitalism #capitalist #liberalism #liberal #liberals #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #EconomicDemocracy #neoliberal #neoliberalism
Worker Cooperatives are democratically controlled enterprises run by the workers themselves. Tap in!
#solidarityeconomy #workercooperatives #communityresilience #alternativesystems
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.
Had a lovely chore-night with @anaulin as we did the books for #ZincCoop and published a light quarterly update with our financial statements: https://opencollective.com/zinc-community/updates/q3-2024-update
#Cooperatives #WorkerCooperatives #TechCooperatives #Tech4Good
Two of my #Cooperatives got written up in #CounterPunch. They interviewed @anaulin who is a member of both #CohereCoop and #ZincCoop.
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#TechCooperatives #TechForGood #SocialJustice #EconomicJustice #WorkerCooperatives
My little tech worker coop is working with #Piikup an #Oakland based delivery and logistics organization that provides door-to-door grocery, meal, and catering delivery services for a number of local restaurants and caterers.
Piikup is working towards a just transition from the #DoorDash, #EZCater, #TryCaviar, or #UberEats all of which aggressively squeeze food service and delivery workers.
If we can get 10 people ordering a plate once a month, that will help us work out the logistical and technological kinks. If you can afford to drop $15~$25/plate once a month on a delicious, healthy meal delivered to your door by workers who care about quality and community; please email hello@zinc.coop with your city and neighborhood and we'll let you know when we're ready to run our real test!
#WorkerCooperatives #FoodJustice #ShopLocal #SocialJustice #Tech4Good #Enshittification
#AllIsSmallAndSmallIsAll
#NoneAreFreeUntilAllAreFree
@SrRochardBunson Employers shouldn't exist. Every firm should be a worker-run cooperative
#coops #cooperatives #WorkerCoops #WorkerCooperatives #capitalism #anticapitalism #BusinessEthics #ethics #philosophy
Rethinking free and open source and its role in the movement against capitalism - "Copyfarleft and Copyjustright"
https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/copyfarleft-and-copyjustright
This is an interesting paper and something like this should be explored. Although, I would shift the anti-capitalist analysis to the labor theory of property and shift some of the critique of property to employment contracts.
#copyright #copyleft #WorkerCooperatives #WorkerCoops #coops #cooperatives
#capitalism #anticapitalism #FOSS #opensource
"This talk ... use[s] the standard principle of imputation to criticize the ideal model of MP theory itself.... The resulting argument is based on the principle of assigning #legal responsibility according to factual responsibility. It implies ... that the [workers] in a firm should be the [its] legal members ... in what are called labor-managed ... firms."
#democracy #coops #cooperatives #WorkerCoops #WorkerCooperatives #capitalism #law #WorkersRights #ethics #unions
@kentpitman , which is the tenet that legal and de facto responsibility would match. Having a match means between legal and de facto responsibility would mean that the workers are jointly held legally responsible for their actions in production. In other words, all firms should be worker-run as in #workercoops.
https://www.ellerman.org/inalienable-rights-part-i-the-basic-argument/
#coops #WorkerCooperatives #cooperatives #WorkersRights #anticapitalism #anticapitalist
If the workers take a notion,
They can stop all speeding trains;
Every ship upon the ocean
They can tie with mighty chains;
Every wheel in the creation,
Every mine and every mill,
Fleets and armies of the nation,
Will at their command stand still.
- #JoeHill 1910
https://labornotes.org/blogs/2024/03/if-workers-take-notion-works-all-showcases-union-coops
"Inalienable Rights: Part I The Basic Argument" Against the Employer-Employee Contract and for Workplace Democracy
https://www.ellerman.org/inalienable-rights-part-i-the-basic-argument/
#philosophy #PoliticalTheory #ethics #BusinessEthics #WorkersRights #employers #unions #coops #cooperatives #WorkerCoops #WorkerCooperatives #law #LegalTheory #capitalism #anticapitalism #democracy
Boycott profit!
Take your business to a cooperative or non-profit company. Every penny wisely spent makes a difference. Down with our corporate overlords! Down with their billionaire owners!
#coops
#cooperatives
#ConsumerCooperatives
#ConsumerCoops
#WorkerCooperatives
#WorkerCoops
#NonProfit
#WealthInequality
Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard summarizes her work on #solidarityeconomics and #workercooperatives.
https://geo.coop/articles/solidarity-economy-economics-abundance
Chernyshevsky's 1863 work "What Is to Be Done?" advocated for #socialist feminism and worker cooperatives.
Today, the #G7’s undemocratic workplaces contribute to social inequalities, leading to austerity measures and rising right-wing sentiments.
In the #BRICS, significant state involvement suggests a potential alignment with worker coops in pursuit of socialist goals.
The left's response should prioritize democratizing workplaces and promoting #WorkerCooperatives.
We have #WorkerCooperatives and #ConsumerCooperatives. And we have #WorkerUnions to fill the gap and force non-cooperative corporations to treat their workers fairly. But are there #ConsumerCooperatives?
#unions
#unionization
#cooperatives
#inequality
#ConsumerProtection
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