Is there really a “worker shortage,†or are frontline workers just tired of risking their lives for substandard pay, protections, and benefits? During the COVID-19 pandemic, worker co-ops demonstrated that it’s possible to run a successful business while still prioritizing the safety and input of workers over profits.
We speak with worker-owners at 8 co-ops in 4 states about the unique benefits, struggles, and limitations of of the worker cooperative model. In the words of Kimberly Britt, a worker-owner at ChiFresh Kitchen, “We work at and own this company, and we designed it to work for us, what would make it not feel like a job.â€
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Basically a Small business? Now try upscaling it and see if it survives.
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Man, it’s almost like a country that values democracy should benefit these businesses more than traditionally own businesses.
Worst part of this video is "latinx". We just say Latino.
I understand the need for a gender neutral term for our trans amigos. But latinx sounds like shit in Spanish.
I have said we could use Latinu or Latine. The vowel at the end makes it sound less like shit.
These are the businesses that deserves more tax cuts.
I’m glad for this video giving concrete examples of successful coops. I listen to the economics professor Dr Richard Wolff. He strongly recommends coops but gives few examples. Please continue having a series of coops featured. It will inspire others to start up their own. I suggest looking at the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca NY as a possible future episode.
Seems to me that the only successful thing the US can run are factories that produce weapons of mass destruction. Here is where they can learn a thing or two from these cooperative movements.
Y sum ppl wearing masks but not others and it isn't addressed.. not stating they all should b wearing masks
I wish everyone would understand the difference between capital and currency. Everyone has capital. How much, that depends on your skill set. Nothing gets done without capital, the workers. If you do not have capital, workers, all you have is currency. We do not live in a capitalist system. Worker co-ops are a bridge to incorporating a capitalist system. Currency is merely a way for rich lazy people to steal capital from everyone else.
Close the circle and change the rapacious goverment that has delivered this Feudalism to the 99.9%…..stop voting for the Criminal Red/Blue cabal that profits from it and stand up for Direct Democracy. Read Mike Gravel's "Citizen Power, a mandate for change"
Who are these women of color. Are black being called colored again? Now I understand the term unessential…undervalued (pons).
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Amazon get those profits due to the government shut down of small businesses. Same for walmart and McDonalds and other big businesses. Problems that can happen with co ops is no or low benefit or retirement
Would be great if workers united for Co-ops.
However, co-ops are so limited due to too many cooks in the kitchen.
I hope more co-ops existed.
A mask ???
Do cooperatives stand a chance to survive – let alone strive – in the forthcoming New World Order ???
Of course it doesn't have to be Hell…just ask anyone working at Huawei.ðŸ˜
Feed the hungry and invest PYE
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