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Steelworkers plan worker-owned cooperatives in North AmericaThe United Steelworkers (USW) and MONDRAGON Internacional, S.A. have announced a framework agreement for collaboration in establishing worker-owned cooperatives in the manufacturing sector within the United States and Canada.
Poor Substitutes — Why Cooperatives and Triggers Can't Achieve the Goals of a Public OptionBaucus's draft bill offers a brief description of cooperatives as new decentralized "non-profit, member-run health insurance companies that serve individuals in one or more states" by issuing "qualified health benefit plans in the individual and small group markets."3 F …
Cooperatives' Record Weighed in Health-Care DebateSen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), a pivotal lawmaker in the health-care debate, wants to deliver coverage to the uninsured by starting up new cooperatives modeled on rural electric cooperatives that were founded during the Great Depression.
Congress will vote on several healthcare bills following August recess. How would you vote? Public Option - More on the Public Option | Stand With Dr. Dean
By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, The Free Advice Man First of all, a WARNING!
A new anti-drug strategy in ColombiaThe initiative would funnel more US funds toward economic projects and less toward the nation's military and anti-coca spraying.
Moving from pricey dorms to housing cooperativesThough not by name, but a first for national and even international readership, this article refers to the Ant Hill Cooperative. Though we were borne of Berkeley roots and are a NASCO member cooperative, we are in a strict sense not a student cooperative. We take anyone, almost.
We Make the Path by WalkingIn Bolivia, the rise of green cooperatives may curb the loss of indigenous traditions and environmental degradation caused by mining practices.
Back in the day, those passionate, heady days of the early seventies and late sixties, food coops were organized in communities all over the country. A food coop was, in the beginning, a group of people who got together once a week and shared their shopping lists.
Worker-Owners and Unions at OddsIn the abstract, worker-owned enterprises and labor unions would appear to have much in common. Both share the goal of improving pay and working conditions. Both aim to give workers a say in the workplace.
From the rubble of economic collapse, Argentina builds a democratic future |From the rubble of economic collapse, Argentina's recuperadas build a cooperative future.
Venezuela's Cooperative RevolutionAn economic experiment is the hidden story behind Chávez's 'Bolivarian Revolution.'
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