Germany’s employment model is under attack, as mass closures and cost-cutting businesses make once-stable engineering jobs ever more precarious. Some trade unionists have turned to worker buyouts as a means of saving jobs — a move that hands workers more control of their situation, but also brings dangers of its own.

Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers (USW), together with representatives from Mondragon International, S.A., the global worker industrial cooperative leader, and the Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC), announced today that

Being a small food producer is hard. There are physical issues, such as dealing with climate change and the changing of the seasons. Then, there are the challenges of packaging, marketing and selling your goods, which can be expensive and inefficient.   “In Pennsylvania, 4% of farmers are making an actual value-added product,” said Rob Breen. […]

Tamil Nadu State Primary Cooperative Bank Employees Union demands salary hike, pension benefits, and improved working conditions in protest.

River Valley Co-op is a consumer-owned cooperative grocery store with two locations in Western Massachusetts. We have been unionized with Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1459 for the last

The labor movement once built thousands of low-cost co-op apartments for working class New Yorkers. It could do so again.

Bernard Marszalek spent eighteen years as a member of a worker-cooperative union printshop, and was a founding member of the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives. Peter Ranis, Cooperatives Confront… READ MORE