Mission/Vision Statements

This booklet is meant to be a “users’ manual” for workers (especially immigrant workers) and their advocates in the field who may be thinking of organizing a worker owned cooperative as a worker empowerment strategy.

This is a step by step guide to the fundamentals of starting a worker cooperative

[Excerpt] Toward the end of my time with Equal Exchange, I came into contact with members of the co-ops that make up the Valley Alliance of Worker Co-ops (VAWC). I was impressed by the tradition of collective management among these co-ops and the manner in which they had come together to begin developing a network of mutual support in their region. The number and diversity of the enterprises represented in the network was very different from my experience of worker co-ops as isolated enterprises.