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Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, San Francisco, CA; Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, Baltimore, MD [11] Seward Community Cafe, Minneapolis, MN [12] TESA Collective; The Drivers Cooperative, New York City
A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and self-managed by its workers. This control may mean a firm where every worker-owner participates in decision-making in a democratic fashion, or it may refer to one in which management is elected by every worker-owner who each have one vote.
Studio director Saleem Dabbous and programmer Bronson Zgeb founded KO_OP in 2012 to make "visually arresting avant-garde games". [2] The studio is run as a workers cooperative with equal salary and decision-making between co-owners. [3] [4] Dabbous and Zgeb used personal savings to launch the company and relied on work-for-hire to finance its ...
A housing cooperative is a legal mechanism for ownership of housing where residents either own shares (share capital co-op) reflecting their equity in the cooperative's real estate or have membership and occupancy rights in a not-for-profit cooperative (non-share capital co-op), and they underwrite their housing through paying subscriptions or ...
The largest worker-cooperative is Mondragon Corporation in Spain, which has over 80,000 associates (workers). The largest cooperative sector by membership is mutual insurance, with over a quarter million members. [29] The most comprehensive data collection on the largest cooperatives comes from the World Cooperative Monitor. [30] [31]
A unionized co-operative is a co-operative which is beholden to active legal involvement by trade unions in the representation of the worker-owners' interests. [1]While they may be considered unnecessary in most cases, trade union involvement and membership may be welcomed by some co-operatives, be it to show voluntary solidarity with the organized labor movement's own history of struggle or ...
The Drivers Cooperative or Co-Op Ride is an American ridesharing company and mobile app that is a workers cooperative, owned collectively by the drivers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The cooperative launched in May 2020 in New York City , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] with the first 2,500 drivers issued their ownership certificates in a media event.
Assisted-service bicycle repair at the Sopo Bicycle Cooperative in Atlanta, Georgia. A bicycle cooperative ("bike co-op") can take the many forms of the cooperative model. . These often include co-ops composed of businesses to achieve economies of scale (retail cooperative), co-ops managed by those who work at the business (worker cooperative), and bicycle co-ops owned and managed by the ...