This week, we're happy to share a short introduction to a new on-line directory of worker cooperative products, workerowned.info, a free, searchable index of products from US worker-owned businesses.Â
Then, members of four worker co-op game development studios talk about why they choose the cooperative structure and the many benefits of the cooperative model for game developers.
A New Directory for Worker Co-ops Products
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by workerowned.info
The marketplace currently indexes 22,000+ products across eleven categories: coffee and tea, food and pantry goods, apparel, books and media, beer and brewing, art and prints, home goods and services, personal care, music, games, and tech and software. The stores range from long-established co-ops like Equal Exchange and AK Press to newer operations like Soapbox Co-op in Chicago and Means Workwear in Minneapolis.
Game Worker Cooperatives
by Game Workers Conference
The Game Workers Conference is an entirely new game industry event made by and for the countless workers who make this massively influential industry and artistic medium succeed. All programming for this completely free & online conference was made by workers, for workers.Â
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Baltimore City Budget Advances Worker Cooperative Conversion
Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy — On June 24th, Baltimore’s final fiscal year 2027 budget was approved by City Council—including, for the first time, money designated to support the conversion of businesses to worker cooperatives when the owners of those businesses wish to retire or sell. The city’s $250,000 commitment will enable an expansion of the work of Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy to facilitate cooperative conversions to retain jobs, empower workers, avert commercial vacancies, and preserve locally-owned businesses...
Solidfund: Strengthening international worker co-operation
Co-op News — Raising capital has long been a challenge for worker co-ops, who often lack the backing of external investors or the grant funding available to community-run ventures. One organisation is working to change that by pooling co-operators’ resources and distributing them democratically: Solidfund. As a co-op itself, Solidfund operates on solidarity principles, including open membership and collective decision-making, with members deciding together how resources are used...
Linking Immigrant, Worker, and Tenant Struggles to Build Community Power
Shelterforce — Building solidarity across unions and the community is rarely easy. MarĂa Moreno, a Jobs with Justice San Francisco leader, notes that it has not been easy to get the mainstream labor movement to ally with JWJ’s coalition of immigrants, workers, and tenants. “One of the biggest challenges this year was aligning labor to march with [the Jobs With Justice] coalition,” she says...
Cooperatives: Prefiguring a Post-Capitalist Good Life?
Arena — The 26th issue of Arena Quarterly has a special section on cooperatives. Post-capitalist work, social engagement and new forms of housing are the centrepiece of this issue—how to cooperate with others to get all manner of things working for you, your communities, your comrades. This is the promise of the cooperative movement. Practitioners and researchers in this special section provide crucial leads for thinking about and enacting new forms of meaningful association. The section seeks to look at the possibilities, limits and structural conditions that shape cooperatives in today’s context of converging crises...
The Heat Stupids and How to Prevent Them
Farm to Taber — Have you ever driven by a group of people up on a roof, paving a road, or bent over in a field in the blazing midday sun and wondered, "how do they stand it?" Are you one of those workers, or someone doing hours of physical work in the summer heat? If so, you have probably heard that you should drink lots of water and take regular breaks in the shade. Maybe you have been told about the signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke, and what to do if they occur. But in reality, you may have brought along one water bottle and you may feel driven to knock out one more task before taking a break...
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