Where can I find out more about Irish worker co-ops? Current or historical?

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#LAJob : #LA Co-op Lab is looking for a #co-op developer: an "energetic, entrepreneurial, and creative individual with community organizing experience and business/financial skills to advance the scale of #WorkerCooperatives in L.A. through coaching, education, and #NonExtractiveLending. https://airtable.com/shrLaqZWiPu3ehqYY

This past year, Green Worker Cooperatives has been able to work with more entrepreneurs, and produce more co-ops, in ways that allow them to hit the ground running sooner and faster. New co-op startups include catering, birth services, food service & food manufacturing, graphic design, jewelry, daycare, education, mental health care, and farming. You can support this work by making a donation here: bit.ly/give2gwc22

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“For this interview I spoke to Eli Zeger (@ezeger16), a writer, editor, and musician. He is also a worker-owner at Ampled and a member of the Exit to Community Collective. He recently published a piece for the Zora Zine titled Appetite for Redistribution: Budgeting for All talking about how blockchains and quadratic funding could be used to facilitate and scale participatory budgeting .” ~~~~~~ https://theblockchainsocialist.com/participatory-budgeting-real-public-goods-and-why-bernie-wouldve-won-with-quadratic-funding/ ~~~~~ #leftist #feminist #feminism #blockchain #dao #workers #workercoops #workercooperatives

Would you ever think about starting a worker cooperative in your field of work? #leftist #feminist #feminism #workers #WorkerCooperative #workercooperatives #dao

@davedornelles @Ursalzona Gosto de vez em quando criar umas colunas fixadas para um conjunto de hashtags. Tipo, "#Rojava #DefendRojava" ou "#SolidarityEconomy #WorkerCooperatives #Coops"

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#Workercooperatives prove your #job doesn't have to be hell

Is there really a #workershortage,” or are frontline workers just tired of risking their lives for substandard pay, protections, and benefits? During the CO...

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Nice to see the Center for Community Wealth Building, Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union and others organizing a Worker Co-op Happy Hour. We need many happy hours.

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@cadadr@mastodon.sdf.org A long time back (sometime between 2011 and 2018 probably), and likely on G+, I looked into co-ops and where and how they seem to work.

First, there are a number of different types of co-ops, including some HYUUUUGE producer co-ops. Visa and Mastercard both started as same, though they reverted to a more traditional business organisation in the 1990s AFAIR. Former CEO Dee Hock has written two books on his "chaordic" principles, "Birth of the Chaordic Age" and "One from Many". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Hock

Worker co-ops are a different story, and (from memory, not notes), I recall these being mostly fairly loosely-organised activities, with Wolff's favourite, the Mondragon Co-operative, being the notable exception.

• Food service, especially restaurants, cafes, and groceries.
• Some farms.
• Acting groups. The San Francisco Mime Troup, maybe, or another group Peter Coyote was active with in the 1960s/70s.
• Several publishing houses.
• Smaller technical activities, such as bike shops and the like.

What you don't see a lot of is massive technical or industrial concerns, at least not that have come across. No Co-Op Ford, GM, Siemans, IBM, or Boeing (though the Free Software movement might be an alternative organisational model). There's a lot of creative work (where individuals are highly independent), or loosely-coordinated work (restaurants/cafes). Little that's got strict regulation or trust concerns.

There are also worker-owned companies and co-op housing (a form of asset ownership), among others.

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#Japan, which has some of the world's largest cooperatives, will finally give #WorkerCooperatives a legal status.

https://www.thenews.coop/148483/topic/legal/japan-house-of-representatives-to-discuss-new-worker-cooperatives-act/

The #LaborNotes Conference organizing is getting real.

The people who made #ShiftChange will host/film a round table on unions and worker co-ops.

I want to organize a session on "De-Googlizing your Organizing" to introduce alternatives to Google, Facebook, etc. that organizers/activists can use today. Anyone interested in working on that with me?

The conference is in Chicago, USA April 17-19 (Covid 19 permitting)

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@emi @mattcropp @GuerillaOntologist and I had the chance to listen to @michaelafisher describe her year-long global tour of #workercooperatives and #solidarityeconomy. Catalunya, Euskadi, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Korea, Japan, Quebec. Video & audio coming soon.

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