List of worker cooperatives
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CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
- Café Chaos Worker's Cooperative, Montreal, QC
- G7 Welcoming Committee RecordsG7 Welcoming Committee RecordsG7 Welcoming Committee Records is a Canadian independent record label started by Chris Hannah and Jord Samolesky of punk band Propagandhi, and their friend Regal in 1997...
- Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse
- The Sleepless Goat Cafe, Kingston, ON
- Urbane Cyclist, Toronto, ON
United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
- AK PressAK PressAK Press is a worker-managed independent publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical left and anarchist literature. It is collectively owned and operated.-History:...
- Alloy
- Equity Shoes
- John Lewis PartnershipJohn Lewis PartnershipThe John Lewis Partnership is an employee-owned UK partnership which operates John Lewis department stores, Waitrose supermarkets and a number of other services...
- News From Nowhere
- Scott Bader
- SumaSuma (co-operative)Suma is the trading name of the Triangle Wholefoods Collective Ltd, a worker co-operative incorporated as an industrial and provident society. It was founded in Leeds in 1975 and is now based in Elland, West Yorkshire. It is the largest independent wholefood wholesaler in the United Kingdom...
- Tullis Russel
- Unicorn GroceryUnicorn GroceryUnicorn Grocery is a co-operative grocery store located in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England. As a workers co-op, it is controlled democratically by its member/owners, who run the business with a flat management structure and with an equal rate of pay...
- Total Coverage Co-operative Design Consultancy
- Swann Morton
- Seeds for Change
- Tripod
- Single Step
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- AK PressAK PressAK Press is a worker-managed independent publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical left and anarchist literature. It is collectively owned and operated.-History:...
(Oakland, CA) - Alvarado Street BakeryAlvarado Street BakeryAlvarado Street Bakery is a worker-owned bakery located in Petaluma, California that produces certified organic whole grain breads and bagels. Alvarado was featured in the 2009 Michael Moore documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story....
- Arizmendi Bakery Coöperative (San Francisco Bay Area, California)
- Arizmendi Development and Support Collective
- Artichoke Food Co-operative (Worcester, MA)
- At-Hand Apps, LLC (Newton, MA)
- Black Bear Bakery (St. Louis, Missouri)
- Brattleboro Tech Collective (Brattleboro, VT)
- Bread And Roses Food Cooperative (Tallahassee, FL)
- Breitenbush Hot Springs (Detroit, OR)
- C4 Tech & Design (New Orleans, LA)
- Casa Nueva Restaurant, Cantina & Bodega (Athens, OH)
- Cheese Board CollectiveCheese Board CollectiveThe Cheese Board Collective in Berkeley, California, comprises two worker owned and operated businesses: a cheese shop/bakery commonly referred to as "The Cheese Board," and a pizzeria known as "Cheese Board Pizza." The Cheese Board is located at 1504 Shattuck Ave and Cheese Board Pizza is located...
(Berkeley, CA) - Chicago Technology Cooperative (Chicago, IL)
- Citybikes Workers' CooperativeCitybikes Workers' CooperativeCitybikes Workers' Cooperative is a worker-run bike shop in Portland, Oregon, United States, focused on bike commuting and cycle touring. It encompasses two retail locations/shops: the Annex, specializing in new and used bike sales; and the Repair Shop, specializing in used bike...
(Portland, OR) - Collective Copies (Several locations near Amhest, MA)
- Colors
- Community Builders Cooperative
- Cooperative Home Care Associates
- Co-Soap Cooperative (Oakland, CA)
- Design Action Collective
- Dollars and Sense (Boston, MA)
- Electric Embers
- Equal ExchangeEqual ExchangeEqual Exchange is a for-profit Fairtrade worker-owned, cooperative headquartered in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Equal Exchange distributes organic, gourmet coffee, tea, sugar, cocoa, and chocolate bars produced by farmer cooperatives in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Founded in 1986, it is...
(West Bridgewater, MA) - Evergreen CooperativesEvergreen CooperativesThe Evergreen Cooperatives are a connected group of worker-owned cooperatives in Cleveland, Ohio. They are committed to local, worker-owned job creation; sustainable, green and democratic workplaces; and community economic development.- Background :...
(Cleveland, OH) - Food for Thought Books (Amherst, MA)
- Free GeekFree GeekFree Geek is a collectively run non-profit organization started in Portland, Oregon in 2000. Free Geek has two central goals: to reuse or recycle used computer equipment that might otherwise become hazardous waste, and to make computer technology more accessible to those who lack financial means or...
(Portland, OR) - GAIA Host Collective
- Glut (est. 1969) (Mt Rainier, MD)
- Green Worker CooperativesGreen Worker CooperativesGreen Worker Cooperatives is a non-profit organization that incubates environmentally sustainable worker cooperatives in the South Bronx of New York City. The organization, founded in 2003 by Omar Freilla, seeks to create green-collar jobs and promotes environmental justice through the creation of...
(The Bronx, NY) - Hard Times CaféHard Times CaféHard Times Cafe is a collectively owned restaurant in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota that is cooperatively-owned by its workers. It is known for its punk and hippie ideology, its gritty ambiance, and its large selection of vegan and vegetarian food...
(Minneapolis, MN) - Heartwood Cooperative Woodshop (Berkeley, CA)
- The Hub Bike Co-op (Minneapolis, MN)
- Inkworks Press (Berkeley, CA)
- Isthmus Engineering and Manufacturing
- Lucy Parsons Center (Boston, MA)
- Lusty LadyLusty LadyThe Lusty Lady is the name of a peep show establishment in the North Beach district of San Francisco. It was also the name of another now-defunct location in downtown Seattle...
(Seattle, WA and San Francisco, CA) - Mariposa Food Co-op
- Mintwood Media Collective P.R. Firm http://mintwood.com/ (Washington, DC)
- Nabolom Bakery
- New Belgium Brewing Company (Fort Collins, CO)
- Northland Poster Collective
- Olympia Food Co-op
- Other Avenues Food Store
- Pedal Express
- Pedal People Cooperative (Northampton, MA)
- Pelham Auto Parts (Belchertown MA)
- Puget Sound Consumer Co-Op
- Pioneer Valley Photovoltaics (Greenfield, MA and New Britain CT)
- Rainbow Grocery CooperativeRainbow Grocery CooperativeRainbow Grocery Cooperative is a worker owned and run food cooperative located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1975, Rainbow Grocery is a member of NoBAWC and the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives....
- Red and Black Cafe (Portland, OR)
- Red Emmas Bookstore Coffeehouse (Baltimore, MD)
- Red Sun Press
- René Pujol Restaurant Cooperative
- Seward Community CafeSeward Community CafeThe Seward Community Cafe is a collectively-run cooperative restaurant in the Seward neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, notable for being the oldest worker-run restaurant in the United States...
(Minneapolis, MN) - Sunshine Propane
- Shot In The Dark Cafe (Tucson, AZ)
- South Mountain Company
- TechCollective
- TeamWorks
- Twin Ports Commonwealth (Twin Ports))
- Union Cab of Madison Cooperative
- Web Collective, Inc.
- Woodshanti Cooperative
See also
- CICOPACICOPACICOPA is the branch of the International Co-operative Alliance that promotes worker cooperatives. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, CICOPA has a membership of 57 national and regional cooperative federations in 39 countries...
- List of cooperatives
- United States Federation of Worker CooperativesUnited States Federation of Worker CooperativesThe United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives is a federation of worker cooperatives in the United States. USFWC was founded at the U.S. Conference of Democratic Workplaces in Minneapolis, Minnesota in May 2004.....