Column The Seventh Generation by Tom Angotti Articles Organizing A Childcare Union In Philadelphia By Peter Pitegoff Worker Coops By Chitra Somayaji Employee Stock Ownership — ESOPS By Corey Rosen The Uncertain Future Of Worker Ownership: Two Decades Of Lessons […]
Immigrant Economies and New York City’s Garment Industry: Challenges for Community Development
By Tarry Hum Despite its dramatic and continued decline, apparel production remains the largest manufacturing industry in New York City. It is viable, in large part, due to the mass influx of new immigrants “sweating” it out in cramped, poorly […]
The Uncertain Future Of Worker Ownership: Two Decades Of Lessons
By Len Krimerman Worker-owned enterprises, sometimes called “worker cooperatives,” have a long history, even in the United States. But they face an uncertain future. In May, 1791, Philadelphia’s Journeyman Carpenters started the nation’s first working-class cooperative. A century or so […]
Employee Stock Ownership — ESOPS
By Corey Rosen If you’ve worn Gore-Tex lately or flown on United Airlines, you’ve patronized a company most of whose stock is owned widely by its workers, through employee stock ownership plans, or ESOPs. During the last decade, the number […]
Worker Coops
By Chitra Somayaji Cooperatives come in several types: producer-owned, consumer-owned, and worker-owned, the last being our focus here. Unlike ESOPs, pure worker coops are 100% controlled by the worker-owners, normally on a one-person one-vote basis (although some coops have hired […]
Organizing A Childcare Union In Philadelphia
By Peter Pitegoff “What an awesome gathering!” Kim Cook, a union organizer from Seattle, smiled as she looked around the meeting room of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees in Philadelphia in mid-June. Just one month earlier, […]
Which Labor, Which Community?
On May 12, the largest union demonstration in years hit New York City streets. Workers from the public sector, services, and construction trades came together to demand that city and state surpluses go to raise worker pay instead of tax […]