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How Unions and Worker Cooperatives Strengthen Each Other (and Workers) (poweratwork.us)
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Mondragon, United Steel Workers, and the Ohio Employee Ownership Center wrote a larger document detailing this concept here.

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A visit to Kailash Ecovillage | an account of a brief two day visit to Kailash Ecovillage in Portland, in mid June, 2025 (www.resilience.org)
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Learning lessons from Italy’s Marcora Law - A way for employees to use their unemployment checks to collectively purchase the company they worked for (party.coop)
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The Mondragon Experiment (1980) Documentary about one of the largest worker owned cooperatives in the world (archive.org)
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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10233241

More info here: https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/

Video interview on how Modragon operates (June 2021 - 52:35):

Let's meet with Mondragon, the biggest cooperative in the world

Similar projects in the US:

The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth

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Rooftop solar can be torn out of capital’s hands | Decentralised solar has the potential to support co-operative, municipal and other forms of community ownership and control (theecologist.org)
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Complex Cooperative Networks Case Study: Emilia Romagna (www.smu.ca)
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Acknowledgement: This case study is part of the Complex Networks for Cooperative Economies report, the result of research conducted by the International Centre for Cooperative Management at Saint Mary's University, in collaboration with the British Columbia Cooperative Association (BCCA).

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Explore & learn more about the MONDRAGON cooperative model and the keys to its success (exploremondragon.com)
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US credit unions continue campaign to maintain tax exemption (www.thenews.coop)
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