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How To Find Worker-Owned Businesses

How To Find Worker-Owned Businesses

I made workerowned.info to make it easy to buy from worker-owned companies online. You can enter men's pants or light roast coffee or board game space cats fascism and get pointed towards wonderful products sold by people whose focus is customers, not shareholders. Recently we pulled

Well Sh!t, The Staff Wants to Unionize Pt 2

Well Sh!t, The Staff Wants to Unionize Pt 2

Oh Damn, that did not go how I expected: My first time at the bargaining table The lawyer told us that a first contract will likely take a little over a year to finalize, possibly even up to two years. He also told us some pretty gnarly stories about other

Well Sh!t, The Staff Wants to Unionize Pt 1

Well Sh!t, The Staff Wants to Unionize Pt 1

It was nearing the end of the pandemic, and I was feeling really proud of our co-op. I looked at all of the ways we had worked to protect the safety of our staff and our shoppers: we were limiting the number of people in the store, paying our