In 2009 the United Steel Workers (USW) collaborated with Mondragon Cooperatives, the world’s largest worker-owned cooperative, to start to develop unionized, worker-owned cooperatives in the US and Canada. As a result of this partnership, USW and the Ohio Employee Ownership Center released a Union Co-op model in 2012 to provide a roadmap for workers to gain ownership of their own businesses. Most recently at its 2014 convention the USW passed Resolution #27 “The USW supports the United States Federation of Worker Co-operatives and the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation in their efforts to promote and support worker-owned businesses”
To learn more about these developments go to: www.usw.coop
