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November 12, 2014June 19, 2019Cooperative Development Institute, Cooperative Fund of the Northeast, Maine

Pacific Standard – Buying Out Your Boss: Worker Cooperatives Are the Future of Small Business

From the Pacific Standard:  The recent Market Basket strike — 25,000 employees from 71 […]

July 15, 2014July 26, 2019Democracy at Work Institute, New York, News, Policy, The Working World

Shareable – New York City to Make Historic Investment in Worker Cooperatives

From Shareable: The Big Apple got behind cooperatives in a small, yet […]

June 23, 2014July 26, 2019Florida, News, Pennsylvania, Texas, The Democracy Collaborative, Virginia, Washington DC

Democracy Collaborative – City governments building community wealth and cooperative local economies

From the Democracy Collaborative: The Roundtable process (in which The Democracy Collaborative […]

March 7, 2014March 6, 2019New Hampshire

Worker co-ops: Like ESOPs, but better

From the New Hampshire Business Review: I read with great interest the Feb. […]

April 1, 2013June 19, 2019Manufacturing

Labor Notes – Can Worker-Owners Make a Big Factory Run?

From Labor Notes: A tire is not just a piece of rubber […]

November 1, 2011March 22, 2019Iowa, Rural

Business ownership by workers: are worker cooperatives a viable option?

From Iowa State University: One possible strategy for both succession and new […]

March 30, 2010November 8, 2019Minnesota

Minn Post – ESOPs: Employee ownership of companies on the rise

From Minn Post: A decade ago, John Schock of Pasadena, Md., reached […]

June 1, 2007June 19, 2019News, North Carolina, Ohio, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Rural

USDA – Worker-owned / ESOPs can help preserve business in rural America

From the USDA: Employee ownership can help a business prosper by creating […]

March 20, 2006June 19, 2019News, Ohio, Ohio Employee Ownership Center

Bloomberg – Unlikely Pioneers: A machine shop takes a new approach to employee ownership

From Bloomberg (pdf): Unlikely Pioneers: A machine shop takes a new approach to […]

January 1, 2000February 19, 2019Childcare, Construction, Food and Beverage, Grocery, Landscaping, Manufacturing, Solar

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Popular Company Stories

  • The Brooklyn Packers – Brooklyn, NY

  • Metis Construction – Seattle, WA

  • A Yard and a Half Landscaping Cooperative – Waltham, MA

  • New School of Montpelier – Montpelier, VT

  • Brooklyn Stone and Tile, Brooklyn NY

  • A Child’s Place – Queens, NY

  • ChiFresh Kitchen – Chicago, IL

  • Opportunity Threads – Morganton, NC

  • Earth Designs Cooperative – Rosendale, NY

  • Once Again Nut Butter – Nunda, NY

Popular Pages

  • Worker Cooperative LLCs

  • What are the Stages of a Transition to Employee Ownership for a Small Business?

  • How are Small Business Employee Ownership Transitions Financed?

  • How Does Small Business Employee Ownership Work?

  • How Do I Create an Ownership Culture Among Employees?

  • What is Small Business Employee Ownership?

  • What are the Benefits of Employee Ownership?

  • Multi-stakeholder Cooperatives

  • What are Some Examples of Employee Owned Small Businesses?

  • Which Small Business Sectors Have Concentrations of Employee Ownership?

Popular Places

  • California

  • Washington

  • Florida

  • Illinois

  • Colorado

  • Maryland

  • Virginia

  • Wisconsin

  • Ohio

  • New York

Popular Sectors

  • Farming

  • Food and Beverage

  • Manufacturing

  • Construction

  • Tech

  • Childcare

  • Health

  • Grocery

  • Cleaning

  • Landscaping

Becoming Employee Owned is an initiative of the Democracy at Work Institute.

Our mission is to expand the worker cooperative model to reach communities most directly affected by social and economic inequality, specifically people of color, recent immigrants, and low-­wage workforces. We are a movement-based think-and-do tank supporting worker cooperatives to grow to a scale that creates meaningful change in the economy.

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