It is official! 2025 is the Year of the Cooperative in Philadelphia, the first US city to sign onto the UN’s resolution for 2025 to be the International Year of […]
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International Year of the Co-op Book Club
To celebrate the International Year of the Co-op, the COWOP Coalition and friends are reading selected chapters of The Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management, edited by Jerome Nikolai […]
Worker Co-op Spotlight: Repaired Nations & Root Volume
Sabine Dabady and members of Repaired Nations and Root Volume pose with the wooden deck and pergola, part of an outdoor kitchen they built at a recent job site. […]
Advocacy alert: Federal funding uncertainty
We know that the recent federal orders have caused uncertainty and concern, and we are working hard to understand the implications for workers and cooperatives. On January 27, there was […]
A Message to our LA Co-op Community: Support in the Wake of the Wildfires
We are aware of the challenges our co-op community is facing in the ongoing fires in Palisades and the surrounding area. While not all of our members in the area […]
Our Giants: A Tribute to Black Cooperative Leaders
The USFWC is honored to share this tribute to Black Cooperative Leaders, called “Our Giants.” Written and edited by our own Matt Feinstein, and performed by Smiley Rojas-Nuñez, this video […]
We believe in liberation: Our 2025 Plans
I believe in liberation and I think that business-as-usual operations don’t win toward liberation at all. That’s Peer Advisor Fellow LaTierra Piphus, one of 10 worker-owners who joined the Peer […]
2024 Year In Review: What We Accomplished Together
Dear USFWC members, Thank you so much for being a member of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. As our team takes a break to celebrate the holidays, we are […]
Building our own doors (4 days left to double your impact)
As a little girl, I used to sit on my porch watching my community: neighbors grocery shopping, actual taxi cabs on the street, and block club parties that brought everyone […]
Highlights from our Member Councils and Peer Networks – December 2024
Our Member Councils and Peer Networks are shaping the future of the worker co-op movement in the U.S. Here are the end-of-year highlights from some of our Councils & Networks: Union Co-ops Council […]