I'm searching for people interested in creation of remote, horizontal game dev worker cooperative
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/20011741...
Idea for a writers' platform co-op
I’m considering starting a co-operatively owned website for writers to share their work without any gatekeepers, and with any profits generated going to the writers....
Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry (www.hamiltonnolan.com)
I'm looking for some employment opportunity, forming/joining a new cooperative
I'm mainly looking for some software development type of job (preferably withing the game industry), but anything else would be fine as long as I get to make above minimum wage, as I'm currently below it, thanks to Hungary's half-assed "public employment" program (they hire people for government institutes for half the minimum...
The Mondragon Corporation: Employee Ownership as Strategy [47:42] (invidious.no-logs.com)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/…/688578...
Artisans Cooperative: An Etsy alternative, owned and run by artists and makers (www.shareable.net)
Finally, there’s a no-tech-knowledge-needed alternative to Etsy. I’m really excited about where this will go!
I'm very interested in Obran, which is a worker cooperative that converts and holds privately held businesses into coops. (www.obran.coop)
Seems like a lot of potential for scale and impact. Anyone know of similar organizations?
The Masters in Management: Co-operatives and Credit Union Program Turns 20 (geo.coop)
Turning Up the Cooperation with Louder Than Ten (www.youtube.com)
An interview with two folks who recently converted their small business into a worker cooperative.
Cooperatives in Portugal - anyone knowledgeable or interested?
As the title says, interested in discussing worker cooperatives in Portugal....
Solidarity Economy 101: The Kola Nut Timebank Story (www.youtube.com)
Activating the unrealised potential of care networks [Equal Care Coop blog] (blog.equalcare.coop)
"The word “commons”, refers to a community-run and owned resource. What we saw during the Pandemic was the role a care commons could play in sustaining individual and community well-being in a crisis. Social Care is in crisis, and just like the Pandemic, this crisis impacts us all. Since conventional home care services have...
US credit union apexes Cuna and Nafcu announce merger intent - Co-operative News (www.thenews.coop)
“The two main credit union associations in the USA, the Credit Union National Association (Cuna) and the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions (Nafcu), have announced their intent to merge…In May the board of directors and executive committees of both organisations voted unanimously to merge, but the move...
2400 cooperatives in the Netherlands consolidated in 200. The turnover jumped to EUR 50 billion. (www.ypaithros.gr)
I also found this scientific paper on the topic edepot.wur.nl/401888
These companies with no CEO are thriving (www.youtube.com)
Directed by Elizabeth Galian, AIM Creative Studios
The Co-op Wars (www.tpt.org)
Food Co-ops in the 70’s were nuts. Some folks made this documentary about the co-op wars that happened in the Twin Cities, where folks were taking over co-ops by force. Just found out today that you can stream it for free through Twin Cities PBS. Worth a watch.
Worker Democracy video by Unlearning Economics channel (www.youtube.com)
It’s an honest and well-thought-out analysis of worker coops, both its flaws and its strengths!
FOSS and Cooperatives - allies?
I’ve always considered the movement for the control and common ownership of companies by their workers to be part of the same struggle as the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) movement....