Industry: Cleaning
Location: New York City, New York
Number of employees: 30
Became employee owned: 2018
Assistance: Center for Family Life
Learn more
- https://brightly.coop/
- https://www.upandgo.coop/
- Fifty by Fifty – Brightly Cleaning: Lessons from the First U.S. Worker Cooperative Franchise (2020)
- ILO – Brightly® – Scaling up worker cooperatives through the franchise model (2019)
- Fast Company – Worker-owned domestic cleaning businesses are gearing up for a massive expansion (2019)
- Next City – Not Your Grandparents’ Franchise: A Network to Scale-Up Worker Ownership (2019)
- Triple Pundit – Brightly Shows How Worker-Owned Cooperatives Can Scale Up (2019)
- NPQ – New Franchise Seeks to Develop Worker Housecleaning Co-ops Nationwide (2019)
- NPQ – Scaling Social Justice: A Latinx Immigrant Worker Co-op Franchise Model (2019)
- Vice – Cleaning Workers Are Fighting for Better Pay and Benefits (2019)
- Robin Hood – New Home Services Platform Up & Go Shakes Up The Gig Economy By Putting Workers In Charge (2017)
Video
- Celebrating Brooklyn Entrepreneurship – Worker Owned Cooperative of the Year Award (video) (2018)
- P2P Foundation – Maru Bautista on the Platform Cooperative for Cleaning Workers in Brooklyn (video) (2018)
Research