JohnnyMac 🌲 @johnnymac@social.coop

Willy St. Co-op union issues: https://workersparadise.org/2019/11/27/willy-st-co-op-for-consumer-union-for-the-workers/

Today at the Union Coop Symposium we heard from the Mexico Electrical Union (SME) about their decade long struggle to save jobs destroyed by the Calderon administration. it was an incredibly moving story and they continue to fight the government to uphold the agreement that includes 13 electrical plants and 50 buildings. I didn't take as complete notes as I had hoped due to being so enthralled.

Is anyone going to the Union-Coop Symposium in Cincinnati, OH this week?

Equal Care Co-op is a platform #co-op with a multi-stakeholder ownership model using sociocracy circle method for its governance. https://www.powertochange.org.uk/what-is-community-business/stories/equal-care-coop/

Just had a discussion about police cooperative such as they have in North St. Louis (https://www.northcountypolice.com/). I'm not sure how I feel about this--it seems like a way to reduce cost to taxpayers and provide more oversight to police. Still, it is a bit weird to see Police Cooperative on the side of a squad car and kinda gives me the creeps. #coop #cooperative

This week, my topic was on the Blueprint for a Co-op Decade (which ends Dec. 31, 2019). Today is imagining 2040. From Arizmendiarrieta: “The future is never as uncertain as it is believed to be and is more conditioned than may seem to us, not as much for what we lose our interest in as for what we try to adopt and improve according to our taste.” We build the road as we travel and the first step of achieving our goals is to state them. #workercoops #coopdecade #coop https://workersparadise.org/2019/11/08/the-worker-co-op-movement-in-2040-revisited/

PG&E as a co-op getting support. If Newsome, though, is flirting with Berkshire Hathaway. If Newsome were to push the co-op model, I think it would make his chances on the POTUS race in '28 (or '24) much better. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/business/energy-environment/pge-california-mayors.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

TL/DR: UNFI closes unionized distribution centers it bought and moves to a new non-union site. Teamsters win arbitration, but UNFI appealing. Where is NCG on this? https://www.theolympian.com/news/business/article236799048.html#storylink=hpdigest_business

40 years ago a small band of cab drivers, dispatchers, and mechanics set out to prove that the workers could run a taxicab company better than the bosses with a focus on living wages, a human and safe workplace, and a democratic environment. I spent almost 26 years there. Congratulations to all of the members of Union Cab past and present!

https://workersparadise.org/2019/10/29/my-2nd-birthplace-union-cab-of-madison-40-years-on/ #workercoops

those of you in the UK, won't see this as very unique, but the US has only one Funeral society and it turns 80 this year! https://workersparadise.org/2019/10/27/a-co-op-to-die-for-peoples-memorial/

The PNW has a huge diversity of co-ops, this is one of my favorites: internet service provider through Althea mesh technology: https://workersparadise.org/2019/10/25/own-the-internet-clatskanie-co-op/ #coop #netneutrality @owntheinternet

@GuerillaOntologist just so you know, I have an especially long post about Union Cab of Madison scheduled for 10/29, its 40th Anniversary. if you want, I can send you the text in advance.

Today, I am focusing on the construction co-ops along the i-5 corridor in Washington State. https://wordpress.com/post/workersparadise.org/1271

Happy International Credit Union Day!
https://workersparadise.org/2019/10/17/international-credit-union-day/ #creditunion