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SPECIAL: The deal between Mondragon and the United Steelworkers

Oct. 27, 2009: The United Steelworkers (USW) and MONDRAGON Internacional, S.A. today announced a framework agreement for collaboration in establishing MONDRAGON cooperatives in the manufacturing sector within the United States and Canada.

Go to GEO's meta-page on this historic agreement

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Worker Cooperative Section of the San Francisco Congress

Below is a report on the Worker Co-operative component of the The San Francisco Community Congress from Steve Rice (volunteer with the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives  [NoBAWC]), Poonam Whabi (Design Action Collective), and Rick Simon (Just Alternatives for a Sustainable Economy).  It is summarized from brainstorming sessions of which twenty or so members from the Bay Area worker cooperatiave community participated.  This component calls on local government to...

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San Francisco Community Congress: background and update

San Francisco Community Congress: background and update

(EDITOR’S NOTE: A very interesting grassroots development happening in SanFrancisco: The San Francisco Community Congress.The goal is to devise practical, locally actionable proposals to shape and direct future policy affecting the local economy and the provision of critical human services.”  Their mantra, “another San Francisco is possible.”  If the devil is in the details, then this appears to be the beginning of a premier Solidarity Economy project.

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Doing Green Jobs Right

An article in The Nation magazine tells how Boston's Green Justice Coalition is creating "a model to connect the struggle for environmental justice with the fight for living-wage jobs, helping to lay the groundwork for a new generation of community-labor coalitions across the country."
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Regional Alliance of Worker Co-ops to Publish a Movement Book

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/410
by Michael Johnson, GEO Collective

Tuesday November 3 marked a milestone for the book project of the Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives (VAWC).  Food for Thought Books, a 33-year collective and member of VAWC, hosted an advance book sale for CO-OP VALLEY! THE WORKER COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY.  They organized the event to help finance the writing and publishing of the book.

VAWC Book Event AudienceOur purpose in publishing this book is three-fold:
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Building the Sustainable Economy

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