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	<title>The Company We Keep &#187; worker cooperatives</title>
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		<title>CRAFTING A BUSINESS OWNED BY ITS WORKERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 15:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the past year I have been in correspondence and conversation with a number of people who are transitioning their companies to employee ownership, starting worker co-ops, or thinking in new ways about worker ownership and cooperative business. Among them:  Rick Dubrow and Cindy Landreth at A-1 Builders in Bellingham, WA, who are working on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CO-OPS ON THE RISE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jabrams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m still excited about the budding alliance between the United Steelworkers (USW) and the Mondragon Cooperatives – and the general awakening consciousness about worker co-operatives and co-operative business in general that I wrote about last month. And there’s more. Rodney North of Equal Exchange (the Massachusetts-based worker owned co op fair trade coffee company)   made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AN HISTORIC ALLIANCE</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jabrams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend David Smathers of the TeamWorks Cooperative Network in California writes: “The Mondragon cooperatives and the United Steelworkers have announced an historic partnership through which they will buy or start manufacturing businesses in the U.S. and Canada that will combine Mondragon&#8217;s democratic structure of ownership and governance with collective bargaining. It will take many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are We Different Enough??</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jabrams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the recent conference of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center (VEOC) in Burlington, VEOC board president Paul Millman asked an important question to the attendees, who represented some of the many remarkably progressive companies in the Green Mountain State. “Are we different enough?” he wondered. Good question.  I wonder about that often when I think [...]]]></description>
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