Cooperatives

What Greece’s Alternative Food Networks Teach Us About Degrowth

August 27, 2026 Eirini-Erifyli Tzekou, Resilience. Create! Cooperatives, Degrowth, Food Security, Greece, Local Economy

When people hear the word degrowth, if it is not problematized or framed as a rejection of the growth paradigm, they often imagine a future that still needs to be invented. But in many places, parts of that future already exist. In Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, a wide range of grassroots food networks have emerged over the last fifteen years: cooperative grocery stores like Allos Tropos, BiosCoop, Eklektik, and To Koukouli; cooperatives operating in the food processing sector or the food services industry, like To Oraion Ntepo or Rediviva...

The Cooperative Case Against Artificial Intelligence

August 25, 2026 Josh Davis, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Strategize! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Cooperatives, Environment

In this article I will present the strongest case that I can for why cooperatives and solidarity economy organizations should avoid the use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Suno. My argument is broken into four sections, starting with what I believe are the most obvious problems with these tools, and progressing to issues that are less discussed and possibly less obvious. The sections are titled Environmental Impact, Ethical Issues, Epistemological Indignities, and Business Risk; click on the title to skip to that section.

World’s Largest Worker Cooperative Network Seeks New Allies

August 23, 2026 Steve Dubb, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperative Network, Cooperatives, Global Economy, Mondragon, Worker Rights and Jobs

In many respects, the 70-year track record of the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation, the world’s largest worker co-op network, is inspiring. It is common to think of worker co-ops as marginal and small. But as of 2024, Mondragón had 81 member co-ops and 12 research centers, and reported revenue of 11.2 billion euros (around $12.7 billion). It is the fifth-largest private-sector employer in Spain, providing jobs to 70,085 people in 2024. In 2025, revenue climbed modestly to €11.3 billion and employment rose to 71,415 people.

Is Pidgin Cooperative’s Worker-Owned Model The Future Of Seattle’s Restaurant Industry?

August 22, 2026 Meg van Huygen, The Stranger. Create! Cooperatives, Restaurants, Seattle, Worker Rights

It’s not exactly breaking news, but Seattle’s hospitality industry is having a real rough time. Over the past few years, our city’s restaurantscape has seen some of the nation’s highest minimum wages instated, justifiably. In its wake came a rolling wave of wage theft investigations and late-pay disputes. That’s alongside the issues that’ve been affecting restaurants across the nation: rent gouging, astronomical food costs, booze tariffs, supply chain issues, inflated insurance payments, and other Trump- and pandemic-related discombobulation.

Can Worker Control Guide The World Past A Neoliberal Crisis?

August 9, 2026 Rebecca Harvey, Co-operative News. Strategize! Book Review, Cooperatives, Neoliberalism, Transformation, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Workers’ self-management is on the rise, as a response to recurring neoliberal crises: this is the central argument in a new book co-authored by Professor Dario Azzellini, senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen with previous roles at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Mexico) and Cornell University (USA). In particular, Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work homes in on worker-recuperated enterprises (WREs), a form of workers’ self-organisation whereby workers restart troubled, bankrupt, or shuttered companies as co-operatives or other forms of democratic workplace.

Building Workplace Democracy

July 31, 2026 USW, Portside. Create! Cooperatives, Democracy, New Economy, Unions, USW, Worker Rights

Mat Forth and his co-workers at the Keystone Development Center, a technical assistance provider for co-ops, had a goal – to create a democratically structured workplace where they collaborated equally in governance and decision-making and prioritized the common good. “We really wanted to practice what we preached and live our values,” Forth said. That pursuit ultimately led them to the USW, which helped them connect the union with their co-op development work. Cooperatives, or co-ops, are member-owned or worker-owned, and KDC works to support all types of co-ops.

The Community Organizer’s Community Development Credit Union

July 27, 2026 Oscar Perry Abello, Next City. Create! Cooperatives, Credit Unions, New York (NY), New York City (NYC)

Although you can find $8 matcha lattes and $25 cocktails there today, Manhattan’s Lower East Side remains a neighborhood covered in both public housing and limited-equity housing cooperatives. Those buildings are home to thousands of low-income residents — largely Hispanic or Asian, often immigrants — who have been quietly investing in their own vision of the neighborhood for decades. On a warm, muggy Saturday earlier this month, outside the headquarters of the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union on East 3rd Street, those residents gathered for a block party.

A New Directory For Worker Co-ops Products

July 21, 2026 Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperatives, Economic Democracy, New Economy, Worker Rights

People buy from Amazon because it's convenient. You search for what you need and it's there. That convenience makes Amazon visible. If you want to buy from worker-owned companies, you have to search individual websites, if you even know where to look. With all the headwinds facing the movement in our political and economic culture, it's no surprise that just getting a worker co-op up and running successfully is more than enough work. The cooperative economy is big, but it isn't convenient, so it isn't visible.

Wake Up World: ROSCAS Are Apart Of The Co-op Family!

July 4, 2026 Caroline Shenaz Hossein and Ilhaam Ladha, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperatives, Financial Security, Local Economy, Roscas

How do people navigate commercial banks that can be exclusionary? How do people stop the harm inflicted on them by way of racial capitalism? Can legal advocacy and policy design reframe how we use money in the current financial ecosystem? These questions were addressed at the international symposium: Worlding Feminist Economics: Political Art, ROSCAs, and the Law, which took place in Toronto in April and May 2026. The event was funded by Canada’s major funding agency, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), alongside a number of global partners.

Arizona State University Launches Program On Co-op Education

June 28, 2026 Miles Hadfield, Coop News. Create! Arizona, Cooperatives, Economics, Higher Education, New Economy

The US National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) has partnered with Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business to launch the Foundations of Cooperative Enterprise Series(CES), a professional development programme for co-operative employees, entrepreneurs and emerging leaders. NCBA says the programme combines its co-operative expertise with the “academic excellence” and workforce education capabilities of Arizona State University, “creating a flexible learning experience that helps participants build practical knowledge while balancing the demands of their day-to-day responsibilities”.

Building Our Missing Care Infrastructure: New ‘Coops Of Coops’

June 26, 2026 Elias Crim, Solidarity Hall. Create! Cooperatives, home care, New Economy, Worker Rights

When big financial interests buy up a local software company, its own employees may feel the change but its home community will likely not even notice. Not so with businesses providing social care—child care, elder care, disabled care. When these small enterprises are bought up—often in multiples—by large holding companies, suddenly employees find themselves tied to an app and new work procedures. The result usually forces them to lower care quality standards which can impact their clients adversely. Home care is a sector of social care under tremendous pressures—in terms of job quality, low wages, low worker retention rates, and so on.

Crushed 1891 Strike By Black Farmer Cooperatives Holds Keys To Economic Justice

June 17, 2026 Shivank Pandey, Nonprofit Quarterly. Create! Black Farmers, Cooperatives, History, Strike, The South, Unions

Houston County, TX, December 11, 1886. Sixteen Black men gathered on a farm and started something that would grow into one of the most ambitious economic organizing efforts in US history. They called it the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union (CFNACU). Within five years, it had spread across the South and claimed 1.2 million members. Then, in 1891, it was violently destroyed. Most Americans have never heard of it. That is exactly the problem. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, a political economist and scholar of Black cooperative economics, described this endeavor in an interview with NPQ.

A Glimpse Into New York’s Cooperative Ecosystem

June 11, 2026 Ebony Gustave, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperatives, New Economy, New York (NY), Solidarity Economy

The Cooperative Leaders & Scholars Fellowship (CLS) was started by the Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) in the 1990s. While the name and format has changed over the years, the intention has remained the same - to provide professional development and networking to emerging cooperative leaders and scholars. This year I was accepted to join a group of 22 people across the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada to learn and build together over the course of 8 months. The cross-sectoral representation of student housing, rural electric, art, and more was just a glimpse into how expansive the cooperative ecosystem is.

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