Millions went hungry when the pandemic hit, but at the Black-owned cooperative Brooklyn Packers, workers rose to the challenge by packing thousands of meals a week. In a sector known for exploitative pay and poor working conditions, people at the worker-owned cooperative are proving it’s possible to pay food workers decent wages, while not making work hell.
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Just came over from Breaking Points. This is so inspiring. If run well, I imagine Co-ops can be MORE profitable than their equivalent corporatized counterparts. Imaging not having to pay middle management, senior management, directors, CxOs, and on and on. So much of a company's overhead doesn't actually contribute to the bottom line directly, so they have to justify themselves by squeezing workers.
Furthermore, when workers are paid well, they no longer have to worry about making rent or feeding their family, so a lot of their mental focus can go into how to make the business operation be more efficient and successful. Ground-level and front-line workers who are ACTUALLY doing the job would obviously know how to make the business run better, not some overpaid executive in some ivory tower who has never even see how the operation actually works.
I wonder if they deliver to Japan . . . .
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I definitely wouldn't mind doing this job everyday to help people in need.
6 people own a business. What's the big deal?
So grateful, we need this so bad. This is true leadership
Co-ops are fantastic, but they do only work in particular industries.
Everyone should spend their money at a co-op. However, I know of a few Co-ops who's employees are treated poorly and paid poorly. They have a second job at Whole Foods because the Co-op needs to make profits too.
Eventually, you can't escape human nature.
Thanks for some real news that’s actually positively solution bound.
Love this idea and would like to see this prototype democratized to all local communities.
Much better idea than Big Chain Stores that actually call the police on people taking food they throw out.
So important!
We gonna need these more and more when the agenda kicks into night gear and we will be forced to "own nothing and be happy" OR ELSE 🚓🔫👮 😷😱👎.✌UK,USA✌
So it's co-op, yay!!!! Doing what? For Whom? Paid by whom? How much?
This is fantastic the people organizing against corporate profiteering to share prosperity very uplifting good news