cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14381867
The /c/unions community kept getting non union general labor interest posts and shockingly there are not really many general labor focused communities on Lemmy. So I've made one here.
Friends:
How the late Bob's Red Mill founder avoided selling out to a food giant and instead transferred ownership to his 700 employees
How the late Bob's Red Mill founder avoided selling out to a food giant and instead transferred ownership to his 700 employees
https://www.businessinsider.com/bob-moore-bobs-red-mill-founder-employee-owned-company-2024-2
Bob Moore, who died Saturday, said large corporations tried to buy out Bob's Red Mill, but he transferred complete ownership to his employees.
Podcast network Maximum Fun is becoming a worker-owned co-op
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/20/maximum-fun-podcast-co-op-worker-owned/?
Maximum Fun owner Jesse Thorn is selling the podcast company back to its workers.
Richard Wolff: What Did Karl Marx Think About Worker Cooperatives?
https://youtu.be/Ztl0L2nI22g
Thumbnail: Fan Art that was floating around. The reason why WORCS decided to touch on this subject a bit is because the conversation comes up often. You will...
The Gig Economy and Online Teaching: Why MyCoolClass is the Future of online education
https://coop.mycoolclass.com/the-gig-economy-and-online-teaching-why-is-mycoolclass-the-future-for-fair-work-online/?
Our plan is to make MyCoolClass the future of online education but it is not a quick fix and is an investment that requires participation
ICDE Cohort 2021-2022: Read the Research Reports! | Platform Cooperativism Consortium
https://platform.coop/blog/icde-cohort-2021-2022-read-the-research-reports/
We are delighted to share the research reports by the ICDE Research Fellows cohort of 2021-2022. The research reports critically examine how to challenge the inequality and financial insecurity that…
IWW?
So, just wondering why the symbol for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a union, was used for this sublemmy (sorry, don't know what else to call it yet).
I mean, I'm supportive of the IWW and am a dues paying wobbly myself. I also support cooperatives and hope to one day be a cofounder and worker/resident at one.
However I'm not seeing a direct correlation between the IWW, a majority of whose members are not in a cooperative and cooperatives, a majority of which are not unionized with the IWW, if they are unionized in the first place.
Are cooperatives sus? (The Problems and Pros of Cooperatives under Socialism and Capitalism)
https://invidio.xamh.de/watch?v=vMn4KBEA_6c
What We Learned from Our Research Sprint on Cooperative Data Governance
https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2022-02/what-we-learned-research-sprint-cooperative-data-governance
Resources and participant work from the Platform Cooperative Consortium/BKC "Alternative Data Futures" research sprint...
Worker Cooperatives: Managerial Structures and Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfo6OJCBse4
How management and power is organized in a worker cooperative.