The Solidarity Economy Principles and practices to build the Solidarity Economy Movement have recently developed and the team is currently in consultation to garner feedback from players in the Solidarity Economy Movement. Here is a bit of information from the developers: Why did we do this? Tool to build unity & shared culture around solidarity … Solidarity Economy Principles
1worker1vote is building a national network of hybrid, shared ownership, regional and municipal ecosystems starting with unionized worker-owned cooperative businesses to overcome structural inequalities of opportunity, mobility, and income. Building pathways out of poverty leading to pathways toward prosperity. A union co-op is a for-profit business owned and directed by workers. This business model utilizes … 1worker1vote
When Andrew Loveland started working for Planet Bean in Guelph, Ontario, three years ago, he didn’t know much about worker co-ops. But he had a passion for coffee and an interest in ensuring it was Fairtrade Certified. If those were the things that got him to join Planet Bean, however, it was the worker … Planet Bean Finds Success With New Model
Co-operation between co-ops is one of the co-op movement’s seven principles, and with that in mind we’ve developed a simple way to bring this principle to life: Solidarity Shopping. Modeled on the initiative developed by the US Federation of Worker Co-ops, CWCF has established a one-stop shopping site that we encourage all of our … Shop in Solidarity
The Canadian Co-operative Investment Fund (CCIF) is a new $25 million fund dedicated exclusively to bridging financing gaps for the co-operative sector in Canada. CCIF provides loans, equity and quasi equity ranging from $50,000 to $1.25 million per transaction. CCIF can work with co-ops in all provinces, territories and sectors. CCIF focuses on supporting … Canadian Co-operative Investment Fund
Postponed to November 18 -20, 2021 in Vancouver Our 2020 AGM happened virtually on November 13, 2020. More information, including a video recording and slides from the presentation by Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, can be found here: https://canadianworker.coop/events/cwcf-agm/ AGM documents are available here. Nathan Schneider, author of Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping … CWCF Conference 2020
By Hazel Corcoran I read with great concern about the sale of New Belgium Brewery to Kirin-owned Lion Little World Beverages. The concern is not only for the loss of this ESOP, as disappointing as that is. Rather, it is because we know that every ESOP, worker co-operative and enterprise in the solidarity economy is … What If We had an Antidote to Worker Co-ops Selling out? The case for indivisible reserves in worker co-operatives
By Chloé Lemon and Dany Rousseau Within the span of two weeks, Quebec’s forestry industry lost two notable people. On November 23 Jean-Yves Lévesque, founder of the newspaper Le monde forestier, passed away, followed by Gérard Paris, first president of RESAM, on December 9. In 1987, Jean-Yves Lévesque founded the newspaper which would later become … Remembering Two Pioneers in Quebec’s Forestry Industry
With the release of two organic beers London Brewing becomes one of two independent craft breweries in Ontario who are certified to brew organic beer. The London Organic Lager is now available in local LCBOs and Beer Stores and the Front Porch Organic Session IPA will be hitting shelves before the end of November. These … London Brewing Releases Certified Organic Beers
