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You think there are no large worker co-ops in the US? Embarrassing. You’ve never heard of Bob’s Red Mill or Publix?
And because I’m sure you aren’t happy with two examples, here’s an incomplete list of notable worker co-ops in the US from Wikipedia:
It’s fucking big
- Acadian Ambulance
- Applied Research Associates
- Arizmendi Bakery
- Bi-Mart
- Black & Veatch
- Bob’s Red Mill
- Brookshire Brothers
- Burns & McDonnell
- Carter’s Foods
- Casino Queen
- CDM Smith
- Certain Affinity
- CH2M Hill
- Corgan
- The Cheese Board Collective
- Chicago and North Western Railway - sold to Union Pacific Railroad in 1995
- Columbia Forest Products
- Dahl’s Foods
- Davey Tree Expert Company
- Dynetics
- Ebby Halliday Realtors
- Edgewood Management, LLC
- Eureka Casino Resort
- Evergreen Cooperatives[4]
- Ferrellgas Partners
- Food Giant
- Frontline Test Equipment
- Gardener’s Supply Company
- Gensler
- Golden Artist Colors
- Graybar
- Great Lakes Brewing Company[5]
- Greatland Corporation
- Harps Food Stores
- HDR, Inc.
- Hensel Phelps Construction
- Herff Jones
- Herman Miller
- Houchens Industries
- Huck’s Food & Fuel
- Hy-Vee
- John J. McMullen & Associates - now part of Alion Science and Technology
- Journal Communications
- Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.
- King Arthur Flour
- Lampin Corporation[6]
- Landmark Education
- Lifetouch
- Mast General Store
- Mathematica Policy Research
- Mushkin
- MWH Global
- New Belgium Brewing Company
- Neuberger Berman[7]
- Niemann Foods
- Oliver Winery
- Peter Kiewit Sons’
- Phelps County Bank
- Publix
- Raycom Media
- Recology
- Robert McNeel & Associates
- Rosendin Electric
- SAIC
- Scheels
- Schreiber Foods
- Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
- Springfield ReManufacturing
- Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
- Stewart’s Shops
- Stiefel Labs
- STV Group|
- Taylor Guitars[8]
- Tidyman’s
- Torch Technologies
- The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
- W. L. Gore & Associates
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Westat
- Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo
- WinCo Foods
- Woodman’s Food Market
But yeah, dawg, worker co-ops are fake news.
PS: is there some reason you omitted the two sentences before that which make it clear this is one method of organizing worker’s co-ops?
If exercised directly, all members meet regularly to make—and vote on—decisions on how the co-operative is run. Direct workers’ cooperatives sometimes use consensus decision-making to make decisions
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