workers.coop meets the unique needs and aspirations of worker co-ops, while spreading the word about worker cooperation among new generations and groups of workers. As a member, you and your co-op can:
- Be involved a member-animated, growing network of worker cooperators in diverse industries and localities
- Identify new opportunities for your co-op
- Benefit from co-created learning, development and support programmes to share resources and insights
- Connect with new audiences and sectors through youth, policy and diverse worker awareness activities
- Meet the challenges of the times by being in solidarity with worker cooperators across our home countries, Europe and around the world.
Our First Year
Worker cooperators organised in six work groups are developing an activity programme for the next twelve months. Here’s some of what’s planned:
- Collate the best resources, templates and policies from worker co-ops to search, download and share
- Create learning modules, starting with the basics like: what is a worker co-op, what it means to be a member, effective meetings
- Develop a Co-op Clinic to match co-ops experiencing challenges with peer mentors or professional worker co-op advisers
- Host member meet-ups, establish regional and industry networks starting with wholefood, creative and tech sectors, and for workers in HR and business development roles
- Develop a business referrals channel, to increase knowledge of each others’ commercial goals and get new business for members
- Start to form productive relationships with other workers’ and social movement organisations.
“…It’s a genuinely ‘member animated’ network, and a new way of doing things. Our goals are pretty ambitious: we want to change the meaning of work, as well as its control and ownership”
Siôn Whellens
Calverts