News & Events - Canadian Worker Co-op Federation

Steelworkers form Collaboration with Mondragon, the World’s Largest Worker-Owned Cooperative

October 27, 2009

Pittsburgh (Oct. 27, 2009) The United Steelworkers (USW) and MONDRAGON Internacional, S.A. today announced a framework agreement for collaboration in establishing MONDRAGON cooperatives in the manufacturing sector within the United States and Canada. The USW and MONDRAGON will work to establish manufacturing cooperatives that adapt collective bargaining principles to the MONDRAGON worker ownership model of … Steelworkers form Collaboration with Mondragon, the World’s Largest Worker-Owned Cooperative

The Co-operative Movement in the Next 100 Years: What are the Opportunities? The Challenges?

October 12, 2009

Ian MacPherson Professor Emeritus of History Co-director, the National Hub The Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerships The University of Victoria [NOTE that Ian MacPherson passed away in 2013. See the ICA tribute to him, here: https://www.ica.coop/en/media/news/co-operators-pay-tribute-ian-macpherson ] Speech to Worker Co-operatives and Sustainable Development Canadian Worker Co-op Federation Vancouver October 2010 When Hazel Corcoran asked me … The Co-operative Movement in the Next 100 Years: What are the Opportunities? The Challenges?

Mondragón Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn

September 1, 2009

Written by Georgia Kelly and Shaula Massena Tuesday, 01 September 2009 Source: Yes Magazine Mondragón Co-op Grocery Store The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the largest consortium of worker-owned companies, has developed a different way of doing business-a way that puts workers, not shareholders, first. Here’s how it played out when one of the Mondragón cooperatives fell … Mondragón Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn