A photo of a group of over 100 people of different ages, colors and expressions sit together and smile at the camera with their fists raised. Text reads sponsor the worker coop conference.
The Worker Co-op Conference is the biggest event in the country for worker-owners, solidarity economy organizers, labor and their support organizations.
Sponsor the #WCC26 at conference.coop
An image of a marijuana plant flowering, purple text reads cannabis cooperative peer network , for workers starting or running cooperative cannabis businesses to connect learn and organize
Cannabis workers - are you interested in learning more about the worker cooperative model?
Join us to talk about how to make our workplaces and industry more resilient and more just. See you on Zoom 4/16!
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If you're using your strengths to build a sustainable #WorkerCoop business that provides for your community, don't re-invent the wheel. Dalaeja Foreman and the rest of the Co-op Clinic Peer Advisor team are here to share their expertise. 🌟 www.usworker.coop/blog/owning-...
Photo of people standing at a podium talking in the Philadelphia City Council. Text reads Policy & Advocacy Council for worker cooperatives.
USFWC members - get the latest updates on federal, state and local government advocacy for #WorkerCoops!
Join us at our next Policy & Advocacy Member Council Meeting on Thursday April 2nd 🌟
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A photo of a group of people standing in a circle sharing stories. Text reads Racial and Economic Justice Council from the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives
What campaigns for racial justice will the #WorkerCoop movement be joining this year? Reparations? Land back?
Join us on April 1st to find out and weigh in. An injury to one is an injury to all!
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A photo of a cat in a bookstore and text that reads worker co-op startup webinar, first wednesdays monthly at 3pm eastern time usworker.coop/calendar
Are you an entrepreneur who wants to make a long-lasting difference in your community?
Bring your co-founders & friends to our #WorkerCoop Start Up webinar, and we'll walk you through different co-op models & how to get started successfully
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Landry’s in Boston is a cooperatively owned bike shop with many locations!
More businesses are becoming worker-owned. Co-ops offer an alternative where workers have ownership and control over the fruits of their labor and share in the profits.
The average U.S. worker co-op maintains a 2:1 pay ratio, offering a pathway to addressing inequality and billionaire influence.
A photo of two people sitting at a table with coffee and laughing and smiling. text reads worker cooperative conference 2026 boston massachussetts september 25 to 26
We're excited to announce that the 2026 Worker Co-op Conference will be held at Roxbury Community College in Boston, MA September 25-26! 📣
Stay tuned for more details about #WCC26 on conference.coop. #WorkerCoopConference
A photo of one person interviewing another person with a microphone, and someone shooting a video camera. Photos of print magazines and newspapers being printed. Text reads Media Cooperatives Peer Network, meets on zoom the last mondays of the month 2pm eastern time.
Join our monthly Media Co-ops Peer Network to learn from others & share resources 🎙️
This monthly call is open to all cooperative members in the audiovisual, print, and digital media industry, not just USFWC members. See you March 30!
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A photo of a group of around 30 people with different shades of brown skin stand together and smile with their fists raised. Text reads Black Cooperator Peer Network.
Join our next Black Cooperators Peer Network call on Wednesday 3/25 to strategize, uplift one another, and build power together.
Engage in meaningful discussions, exchange resources, and build relationships with us!
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#WorkerCoops
“I’d never seen myself as like a business owner and I didn’t know what that would mean, turns out it's really empowering and cool to share the business all together," said Rae Pellerin, a worker and co-owner of Bike Plant.
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🚴🏼💗 #WorkerCoops
A group of people generally younger to middle aged of different color and expression standing together smiling. Text reads we know a just, regenerative future is possible, join us. the next economy Masters in Business Administration.
What would an MBA look like for leaders who want to create a racially just, regenerative, and inclusive economy for all life?
Learn more about the Next Economy MBA spring cohort and sign up for a free intro: go.lifteconomy.com/nextmba
Reminder we're sharing how the Union and Co-op movements are intertwined and how #Unions can support #Coops by committing to Labor Neutrality this Monday! Don't miss it ❤️🔥❤️🔥
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un imagen de una semilla intentando crecer con dificultades y texto encima que describe las causas fundamentales de la falta de participación. Dos fotos de perfil de matta feinstein quien tiene piel clara y pelo corto y lleva un gorro de beisbol y sonrie y maureen darras quien tiene piel clara y pelo largo cafe y rizado y lleva una camiseta blanca con un collar, ambos son personal de la clinica cooperativa. Texto dice fundamentales de la democracia en el trabajo, participación de la membresía miércoles 11 de marzo 3pm tiempo del este por zoom.
un imagen de una semilla intentando crecer con dificultades y texto encima que describe las causas fundamentales de la falta de participación. Dos fotos de perfil de matta feinstein quien tiene piel clara y pelo corto y lleva un gorro de beisbol y sonrie y maureen darras quien tiene piel clara y pelo largo cafe y rizado y lleva una camiseta blanca con un collar, ambos son personal de la clinica cooperativa. Texto dice fundamentales de la democracia en el trabajo, participación de la membresía miércoles 11 de marzo 3pm tiempo del este por zoom.
¿Quieres revitalizar la energía para la toma de decisiones importantes en tu cooperativa?
Únete a la Clínica Cooperativa para compartir el poder y tomar decisiones colectivas en tu negocio a largo plazo con éxito.
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Una foto de unas mujeres cooperativistas que paran juntas y sonrien. Texto dice celebramos el dia de la mujer con una feria de cooperativas, ¡únete al movimiento de inmigrantes en las cooperativas!
¡Este 8 de marzo estaremos celebrando la fuerza de la mujer cooperativista! 💜💜
Ven a establecer conexiones con otras cooperativas con la intención de mantener el contacto y crear relaciones #Cooperativismo
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flyer with clip art of workers and raised fists, text reads "labor neutrality: a new standard for co-ops, monday march 16 6:30 to 8:30pm, part of an academic course, open to the public"
In 2025, the USFWC membership voted unanimously to endorse labor neutrality as a standard for the co-op sector. If you're a cooperative, sign the pledge to labor neutrality & join us on Zoom March 16 to learn more ✊🏼 #UnionCoops #WorkerCoops #UnionStrong
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The Let Us Contribute Initiative was founded by incarcerated people & is supported by a coalition of partner organizations, working with lawmakers to create #WorkerCoops inside prisons in CA, which has the 2nd highest prison pop. after Texas.
Learn more: www.letuscontribute.org/issues
"Worker-owners also have more control over their labor, which improves their work experience, productivity, and human dignity. They earn annual dividends as owners in addition to a salary, helping them build assets & support their families." ✊🏼🛠️ #WorkerCoops
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a graphic of a seedling struggling to grow with text over it that describes the root causes of disengagement. Two headshot photos of matt feinstein who has light skin short hair and wears a baseball cap and smiles and maureen darras who has light skin and long brown curly hair, wears a white collared shirt and smiles, both staff of the cooperative clinic. Text reads foundations of workplace democracy, member engagement wednesday march 11 on zoom 3pm eastern time.
Feeling burnt out with your co-op project and want to turn things around?
Join us on March 11 - We'll share a free mini guide to bring back the passion and equitable participation your group needs to be a successful team! #WorkerCoops
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Un imagen de Bad Bunny haciendo una caída de confianza sobre docenas de personas que le van a agarrar. Texto sobre Bad Bunny dice “mi cooperativa de trabajadores” y texto sobre las manos dice “redes y asociaciones que me respaldan”
Somos más fuertes cuando nos unimos.
Es la fundación del cooperativismo, y porque vimos que casi 3/4 de las #Cooperativas que encuestamos formaron parte de redes y asociaciones locales en 2024.
(Fuente: www.usworker.coop/censo/)
#BadBunny #BadBunnySuperBowl
An image of Heated Rivalry couple Shane and Ilya in hockey gear facing off on the ice. Text in front of them reads “worker cooperatives joining local networks for mutual support even if they are business competitors”
We’re stronger when we work together 💗 That’s the nature of cooperation, and why nearly 3/4 of #WorkerCoops and democratic workplaces we surveyed were members of local networks or associations in 2024.
(Source: usworker.coop/census/ )
#HeatedRivalry #Cooperation
Economic democracy is the path forward.
Support the growing number of democratic and worker-owned media organizations for a future where democracy isn't just a slogan.
An image of geese flying overhead and pine needles and text that reads state of the sector of worker cooperatives and democratic workplaces 2025, published by the united states federation of worker cooperatives and the democracy at work institute. Download your copy!
Let’s keep moving toward shared ownership, democratic governance, and workplaces built on values.
Read the full 2025 #WorkerCoop State of the Sector report to explore the data and stories shaping the future of work: www.usworker.coop/census/
A line graph shows a sharp increase of workforce size around 2020, text reads “the workforce has more than doubled”
Overlay text reads “we asked, why start a co-op? And worker-owners answered ‘the cooperative model fits our values. We see cooperative models as the future for workplaces. The work we do is about helping people sustain he work they love and the world needs, this work doesn’t happen in isolation’
Today, there are an estimated 1,300 #WorkerCoops and democratic workplaces employing 16k workers across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. In 2024 we identified 820 firms employing 13,520 workers, more than double the workforce counted just over a decade ago.
(source: www.usworker.coop/census/)
A line graph timeline that shows points increasing in value as time goes on, text reads “co-ops show 34% growth since 2020”
A bar graph with two bars, one reads 13% traditional businesses and the other reads 34% worker co-ops and text reads “according to the united states chamber of commerce, traditional small businesses only grew 13% since 2019”
#WorkerCoops and democratic workplaces are growing steadily and meaningfully. Since 2020, the sector has grown 34%, while traditional small businesses only grew 13% since 2019.
(source: www.usworker.coop/census/)
Wage theft is the largest form of theft in the United States. Billions are stolen from working people every year, and most of it is never recovered.
Workplace democracy is necessary to address this systemic issue and to create an economy accountable to the people.
In the vet industry, conversions to #WorkerCoops are a uniquely powerful intervention to address crises - here's Cooperative Veterinary Care's story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_N1...
Two group photos top and bottom of eleven vet professionals and office staff wear scrubs and professional clothes and smile. Text on the wall reads Spring Green Animal Hospital with a logo of a cat and dog.
"Vet professionals are at high risk of dying by suicide, due to occupational stressors, including burnout. Upon converting to a #WorkerCoop, Cooperative Vet Care became more competitive, more compassionate & could attract workers escaping corporate practices." 🐈 💗
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𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭, 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
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