The USFWC is a driving force in ensuring the promise of worker-ownership is accessible to communities of color. Black workers in particular face entrenched barriers to economic security, from the […]
Owning Our Future – Worker Cooperation for Self-Determination
If you’re using your strengths to build a sustainable business that provides for your community, don’t re-invent the wheel. Dalaeja Foreman and the rest of the Co-op Clinic Peer Advisor […]
Peer Advisor Fellowship: Growing Technical Assistance For And By Communities Of Color
For worker co-ops to be a force for racial and economic justice, working class communities of color need equitable access to the tools of cooperative development. As interest in worker […]
Get your worker co-op certified as a Minority or Women -owned business
The USFWC is excited to offer a new pilot certification option for minority-, women-, or socially and economically disadvantaged businesses through a partnership with the National Center for Employee Ownership […]
Update on SBA loans affecting green hard holders, California and Minnesota businesses
Recently, the SBA announced the suspension 111,620 California Borrowers. Administrator Kelly Loeffler announced that the agency has suspended California borrowers because of alleged fraudulent activity across SBA pandemic-era loan programs. […]
Co-ops: Pledge your commitment to labor neutrality
Sign the Pledge here In 2025, the USFWC membership voted unanimously to endorse labor neutrality as a standard for the cooperative sector. (Read the resolution here.) Labor neutrality is when […]
Minneapolis Co-ops’ Mutual Aid Amid Federal Occupation
The deployment of thousands of federal agents in Minneapolis has sparked a siege of violence and sowed fear across the Twin Cities since the new year. Here’s how some cooperatives […]
Take Action: Tell Congress that Defending the Free Market Means Defending Civil Rights
The USFWC is a founding signatory of a national business & investor joint sign-on coordinated by the American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN), calling for the restoration of the rule of […]
The 2025 State of the Sector Report is here!
The 2025 State of the Sector of Worker Cooperative and Democratic Workplaces is a report on worker cooperatives and democratic workplaces in the United States. This work is a co-production […]