Bob Moore, who died Saturday, said large corporations tried to buy out Bob's Red Mill, but he transferred complete ownership to his employees.



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coops @lemmy.ml Pluto [he/him, he/him] @hexbear.netMy therapist sent me this on May Day!
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2436414
Fae's also Autistic, like me.
Fae didn't know it was technically an American holiday till I told faer today for our therapy session.
Fun fact: the wife of the person that was executed became a CPUSA member (the wife of one of the leaders of the group)!
Her house was burned down and the FBI took all her papers from the wreckage, her burnt memoirs and all that, and whatever else she was writing.
All that history... lost.
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coops @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.mlWe now have a general Labor focused community. Please feel free to contribute.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14381867
The /c/unions community kept getting non union general labor interest posts and shockingly there are not really many general labor focused communities on Lemmy. So I've made one here.
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coops @lemmy.ml pingveno @lemmy.mlwww.businessinsider.com How the late Bob's Red Mill founder avoided selling out to a food giant and instead transferred ownership to his 700 employeesLink Actions -
coops @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.mlMax fun is now a worker coop
techcrunch.com Podcast network Maximum Fun is becoming a worker-owned co-op | TechCrunchMaximum Fun owner Jesse Thorn is selling the podcast company back to its workers.
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coops @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.mlPhD economist, Richard Wolff talks about Marx's opinion on worker cooperatives
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coops @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.mlHow can we democratically own the digital economy?
platform.coop ICDE Cohort 2021-2022: Read the Research Reports! | Platform Cooperativism ConsortiumWe are delighted to share the research reports by the ICDE Research Fellows cohort of 2021-2022. The research reports critically examine how to challenge the inequality and financial insecurity that…
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coops @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.mlcyber.harvard.edu What We Learned from Our Research Sprint on Cooperative Data GovernanceResources and participant work from the Platform Cooperative Consortium/BKC "Alternative Data Futures" research sprint...
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coops @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.mlWorker Cooperatives: Managerial Structures and Power
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coops @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.mlResonate is fundraising for upgrades to their platform
opencollective.com Resonate Co-op - Open CollectiveWe're building a music streaming co-op. In addition to the donations tracked below, we've raised 5243€ from new listener memberships & supporter shares. In total, 9,198€ of our 20,000€ funding goal.
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coops @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.mlplatform.coop Apply for the 2022-2023 Fellowship Program at The New School’s Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy.Apply for the 2022-2023 Fellowship Program at The New School's Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy.
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coops @lemmy.ml jackalope @lemmy.mlResonate is a community owned streaming platform.
resonate.is Play fair.Resonate is the world’s first co-operative music streaming service — a multi-stakeholder platform co-operative, democratically governed by its members: artists, listeners and workers.
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