#coopexchange — Public Fediverse posts
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@LeoSammallahti writes about The Staffing Coop (now part of Obran) at #CoopExchange: https://coop.exchange/blog/98aae6de-f8e5-11e9-a6c8-06ceb0bf34bd/we-need-more-worker-owned-staffing-agencies
Hive-mind: are there other examples of or literature about cooperatively owned/run staffing agencies?
Links/suggestions welcomed!I'm particularly interested in food and ag sector applications, where there are major labor issues a coop approach could be quite helpful in addressing.
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In South Korea around 2000 cooperatives are launched every year.
By comparison, Germany and the UK saw 187 and 150 new cooperatives launched in 2019.
We are witnessing a silent yet revolutionary shift in one of the most vibrant economies in the world.
My new article on #CoopExchange blog.
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Recently the .org domain was almost sold to a private equity firm.
Internet heavyweights, like the head of Wikimedia, fought to have the domain owned as a #platformcoop instead.
They blocked the sale and now plan to democratise large parts of the internet.
My new article on #CoopExchange blog.
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#coop fact of the day!
If you have data that I could use to make more animations out of let me know :)
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#coop fact of the day!
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#coop fact of the day!
What a brilliant way to mobilise those who are often at the very bottom of the economic system.
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#coop fact of the day!
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#coop fact of the day!
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#coop fact of the day!
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#coop fact of the day!
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#coop fact of the day!
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#coop fact of the day!
In a bit similar fashion, money and property seized from Mafia has been used to fund cooperatives that seek to rehabilitate criminals in Italy.
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#coop fact of the day!
If you are in the UK, join a recently launched similar coop Open Credit here:
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#coop fact of the day!
Also, the Finnish co-op retail giant S-Group is starting a solar rooftop project that will make it the largest solar energy producer in the country.
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#coop fact of the day!
Paul Colliers books "The Bottom Billion", "Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System" and "Exodus" are all absolutely brilliant.
He is also a great admirer of the #coop movement!
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#coop fact of the day!
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#coop fact of the day!
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#coop fact of the day!
During the New Deal rural America was electrified with low-cost federally backed loans to electric coops.
#coops should also play a role in the #GreenNewDeal.
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#coop fact of the day!
Will be standing in S-Group co-op board elections this March.
If you have ideas on policies I should advocate for, let me know :)
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#coop fact of the day!
Often the conventional perception is that #workercoops do not work because the workers would increase their wages above the optimal level.
However, the opposite is true - the structure enables greater wage flexibility, making the firms better capable of adjusting to shocks.
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#coop fact of the day!
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#coop fact of the day!
#coops often see a decline in member engagement as the number of members grows. It's not inevitable. The opposite can also happen.
More votes were cast in the last
S-Group election than in the local elections of the 2nd biggest city in Finland!Will be standing in the 2020 S-Group elections, campaigning for more #principle6.
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#coop fact of the day!
#coops are better than other businesses at creating good jobs where they are needed the most.
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#coop fact of the day!
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#coop fact of the day!
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#coop fact of the day!
The #platformcoop movement is nothing new. #coops have always played an important role in the history of the internet.
The first financial institution in the world to provide online banking was a US credit union. The second one was a Finnish coop bank.
Some of the largest internet exchange points are cooperatively owned.
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#coop fact of the day!
This policy is also in the British Labour party manifesto.
With a "silver tsunami" of baby boomer business owners retiring and putting their companies up for sale, Britain has an unprecedented opportunity to unleash a massive expansion of worker ownership.
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#coop fact of the day!
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#coop fact of the day!
Are there any other countries where the largest retailer is a coop?
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#coop fact of the day!
Big banks, the most powerful economic actors in the world, throw everything they can against #creditunions. Yet the coop model ends up beating them at their own game.
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