Worker Cooperative

Definitions

• "A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and democratically controlled by its worker-owners. This control may be exercised in a number of ways. In "pure" forms of worker co-operative, all shares are held by the workforce with no outside or consumer owners, and each member has one voting share. In practice, control by worker-owners may be exercised through individual, collective or majority ownership by the workforce, or the retention of individual, collective or majority voting rights (exercised on a one-member one-vote basis). A worker cooperative, therefore, has the characteristic that the majority of its workforce own shares, and the majority of shares are owned by the workforce."

• "Worker Cooperatives and Collectives are enterprises democratically controlled by their members. Structured in many different ways they are united by the principle of member control based on the co-op principle of “one member, one vote." Some adopt a consensus decision-making structure."

Governance

• Uk Cooperatives Workers' Cooperative Governance Principles

Examples

http://Cultivate.Coop/wiki/Worker_Cooperatives

Internal Links

• Cooperatives
• Cooperatives Index

External Links

• Worker Cooperative on Wikipedia