Organized Labor

Occupy Wall Street: The labour connection

michaeljohnson — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:44:09 -0400

Al Jazeera interviewer goes deep with US labor leader, Mike Locker

Union leaders to pull funds from five banks, look to CUs

michaeljohnson — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:23:37 -0400

report from Credit Union National Association

Third International Encuentro: "The Workers' Economy"

jim — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:32:52 -0500

Analyzing & Debating a New Economy from the Perspective of Workers & Self-management

Mexico City, June 9-11, 2011

Unions and Coops

John McNamara — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:36:07 -0400

I wasn't able to sit through the entire presentation, however, I wanted to capture as much as I could of this interesting presentation about the ability of labor unions and worker cooperatives to co-exist and to thrive.

The John Logue ACE Award; other ACE Awards

ajowa — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:32:49 -0400

The Association of Cooperative Educators established the John Logue ACE award at its 58th annual conference in Cleveland July27-30, 2010. Ohio Employee Ownership Center staff members, Bill McIntyre and Logue's wife, Olga Klepikova, talk about Logue's work, vision, "moxie" and his impact on Ohio and the U.S. Other ACE awardees for 2010 are also mentioned.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF COOPERATIVES IN THE PITTSBURGH AREA

michaeljohnson — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:24:43 -0400

A BRIEF HISTORY OF COOPERATIVES IN THE PITTSBURGH AREA By John Curl At the time of its incorporation in 1817, Pittsburgh was already a manufacturing center, with a population of around 6,000, supplying the western region with artisanal products almost entirely made by home industry. It had become a manufacturing center during the war of 1812, when the supply of British-made goods have been cut off in the region. In 1817 most manufacturing was still done by independent self-employed artisans using hand tools. But their livelihood was already threatened by the growth of a new system that was making their economy obsolete: factories and wage labor.

John Curl's Outline History of Cooperatives in the San Francisco Bay Area and California

ajowa — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:08:36 -0400

John Curl's history of the Bay Area Cooperative movement is eye-opening. It leaves you amazed that this country is so rich in cooperativism yet we only learn of it through John's heroic efforts. It brings to mind the saying: You need to know where you've been to know where you're going. My hope is that this history further opens up and extends our vision and our work. Many thanks to John Curl for his work.

Download Curl's History of the Bay Area Cooperative Movement here.

GEO will also post his fabulous history of the Pittsburgh area and the Pennsylvania history written for the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy in a booklet in 2009.

A Sampling of News and Opinion Regarding the Deal Between Mondragon and the United Steelworkers

jim — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:39:34 -0500

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/411

An Opportunity Missed? Reflections on a Workshop (Part I)

Ethan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:39:04 -0500

By Len Krimerman, GEO

I went to the Green Union Coop Development Initiative workshop at the "Democracy at Work" Conference in New Orleans (June, 2008) with very high hopes. Somehow, the Conference organizers had managed to bring together, in a large and over-filled room, committed and inventive practitioners from the labor union, cooperative, and green economy movements. The speakers spoke with clarity and passion about:

A Strategy for Unions and Coops: Toward Building A Labor-Ownership Economy

Ethan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:15:54 -0500

By Lisa Stolarski

Both Hands in the Soil

There is an ethical imperative to shift the balance of economic power away from corporate Capitalism and toward economies that benefit us all. Beginning with this assumption, I will explain how it is possible for unions and worker cooperatives to collaborate strategically to take market share away from absentee-owned and wage labor capitalist enterprises and place control of resources and production in the hands of communities of working people.