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Articles

YES! Magazine: Cooperative Ways to Weather the Silver Tsunami (December 7, 2023)

Soapbox: Nonprofit awarded half-million to train, organize workers for green jobs (October 24, 2023)

Movers & Makers: Co-op Cincy receives major grant to prepare ‘green economy’ workforce (October 6, 2023)

Canvas Rebel: Meet Ellen Vera (September 7, 2023)

The Cincinnati Enquirer: 'We can do it ourselves.' Queen Mother's Market battles local food desert (August 23, 2023)

Movers & Makers: Co-op Cincy training African engineer about food cooperatives (August 11, 2023)

Next City: What Ohio’s Co-op Evangelists Learned From Spain’s Thriving Union Co-op Network (June 21, 2023)

Soapbox Media: The trip to Mondragon: Home of the world’s largest co-op (May 23, 2023)

Cincinnati Business Courier: Co-op Cincy delegation learns from leaders of Mondragon Corp. cooperatives (May 15, 2023)

The Cincinnati Herald: Cincinnati leaders tour co-ops in Spain; learn from powerful strategy for economic transformation (May 5, 2023) (print)

Co-op News: More than a paycheque: How can co-ops offer a better future of work? (May 2, 2023)

Movers & Makers: Cincinnati leaders head to Spain to see success of worker-owned economic approach (April 10, 2023)

Spectrum News 1: Co-op Cincinnati boot camp shows employees ins and outs of worker-owned businesses (March 7, 2023)

Cincinnati Business Courier: Sustainergy brings inclusive capitalism to construction work (November 18, 2022)

Cincinnati Business Courier: Co-op Cincy's Business Legacy Fund returns to help owners sell their businesses (October 3, 2022)

Movers & Makers: Worker-ownership fund expanding (September 20, 2022)

Nonprofit Quarterly: The State of the Care Economy: Community Leaders Weigh In (September 14, 2022)

Nonprofit Quarterly: If at First You Don’t Succeed: A Tale of Co-op Advocacy and Local Government (August 17, 2022)

Bloomberg: How a Worker-Owned Business Model in Spain Is Keeping Inequality in Check (June 30, 2022)

Soapbox: Heritage Hill clothing captures Black excellence (April 26, 2022)

Prism: How worker cooperatives shift power to workers (April 11, 2022)

Cincinnati Herald: Co-op Cincy supports transition, broadening ownership for a Black-owned business (April 7, 2022)

Cincinnati Herald: Cincinnati Childcare Center becomes worker-owned, joining growing wave and boosting local economy (March 27, 2022) (print and online)

Next City: How a Cincinnati Preschool Became Worker-Owned (March 16, 2022)

WCPO-TV: Co-op grocery store in Walnut Hills hopes to expand healthy food access (March 1, 2022)

Movers & Makers: Local nonprofit helps Mt. Airy childcare firm become worker owned (February 22, 2022)

Co-op News: Power in Numbers: Lessons in co-op organising from Cincinnati (December 6, 2021)

Fifty by Fifty: Ohio Worker Ownership Network Poised to Scale Employee Ownership Statewide (October 18, 2021)

Soapbox Media: Co-op Cincy helps family businesses survive — and thrive (September 28, 2021)

La Mega Nota: Co-op Cincy promueve al trabajador como dueño de empresa (September 20, 2021)

WCPO-TV: Can worker-ownership help solve growing economic crisis? Co-op Cincy thinks so (September 15, 2021)

WCPO-TV: Cincy Co-op Business Legacy Fund aims to increase the number of minority-owned businesses in the city (August 22, 2021)

Soapbox Media: Building the Pipeline: How to keep small business open through minority ownership (June 15, 2021)

Kentucky State AFL-CIO: What's a union co-operative? (March 25, 2021)

La Mega Nota: Cooperativas lideran rescate de pequeñas empresas (September 24, 2020)

Cincinnati Business Courier: Business Legacy Fund aims to help employees buy their workplaces (September 16, 2020)

WCPO-TV: Business Legacy Fund aims to help employees buy companies from retiring business owners (September 16, 2020)

Co-op News: Unions and co-ops – a new way forward for workers? (April 29, 2019)

Nonprofit Quarterly: Grassroots Movement Promotes Adoption of “Union-Co-op” Model (December 15, 2017)

SWORWIB (Southwest Ohio Regional Workforce Investment Board): NewsWIB December 2017: "Spotlight on Cooperatives" (December 2017)

Labor Notes: Unions and Worker Co-ops, Old Allies, Are Joining Forces Again (September 5, 2017)

B The Change: The Many Faces of Employee Ownership: The Skinny on ESOPs, Worker-Owned Co-ops, and Everything in Between (March 31, 2017)

Cooperative Grocer Magazine: Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative Grows in Cincinnati: Apple Street Market and a co-op development vision (January-February 2017)

YES! Magazine: From Grocery Stores to Labor Unions, Cooperatives were the answer (January 23, 2017)

New Internationalist: Union co-operatives: what they are and why we need them (January 13, 2017)

WCPO-TV: Community activist works to bring co-op grocery store Apple Street Market to Northside (October 16, 2016)

Cincinnati Magazine: Market Share: The Rise of the Co-op Grocery Store (August 2016)

El Diario Vasco: The United States of America Cooperative Banking Praises the Enterprise Power of Mondragon (July 18, 2016) Original version here

Patheos: A Saint for a New Socio-Economic Order (May 30, 2016)

The Hill: Cooperating for a Better Tomorrow (May 19, 2016)

Toward Freedom: The Evolution of Union Co-ops and the Historical Development of Workplace Democracy (April 28, 2016)

Soapbox Media: Xavier conference takes deep dive into local and national co-op movement (April 19, 2016)

Union Advocate: Workers OK first contract, making Wedge first union co-op in Minnesota (April 6, 2016)

Dayton Daily News: Food Co-op Grocery Proposed for West Dayton (April 2, 2016)

City Beat: From All Fronts: Local organizations discuss ways to combat environmental, economic disparities with pioneering group PUSH Buffalo (March 30, 2016)

Truthout: Unions and Cooperatives: How Workers Can Survive and Thrive (February 27, 2016)

Caroline Savery: Union Co-ops present a hopeful model for achieving worker co-op growth (February 9, 2016)

Yes! Magazine: 6 Cities Designing for Health: From Detroit to Edinburgh, these cities are helping residents live more healthful and equitable lives. (January 11, 2016)

Northsider News (vol 2, issue 6): Food Culture – Apple Street Market, Only 300 More Owner Shares Needed! (June 4, 2015)

Cooperative Development Institute: How Cooperative Grocery Stores are Bringing Food Access to Low-Income Neighborhoods (April 24, 2015)

Business Courier: New Grocery Store Planned for Northside (December 31, 2014)

Cincinnati Magazine: Northside’s Apple Street Market Aims for Early 2015 Opening (November 4, 2014)

Soapbox Media: Our Harvest: Growing a New Type of Food Business (September 16, 2014)

Urban Cincy: Apple Street Market Cooperative Hoping to Fill One of Cincinnati’s Food Deserts (August 18, 2014)

Truthout: Will German Workers Declare Independence (June 26, 2014)

City Beat: Seeds of Change: Urban Farming reverses unsustainable practices and cultivates community resources (April 9, 2014)

Seedstock: Worker-owned Co-op Grows Food and Farmer in Cincinnati (April 9, 2014)

Cincinnati Magazine: Garden State (March 27, 2014)

Yes! Magazine: Unions Are Going Into the Co-op Business – The steelworkers deal that could turn the rust belt green (March 5, 2013)

Democracy Collaborative (Community-Wealth.org): Infographic highlights the union co-op model, an innovative template for worker-owned businesses (November 6, 2013)

AFL-CIO Blog – Innovation @Work: More than Zucchini (October 29, 2013)

National Cooperative Bank: Laboral Kutxa (the Mondragon Bank) and National Cooperative Bank (NCB) to Partner in Growing Domestic Worker-Owned Cooperatives (September 4, 2013) (Note: CUCI is mentioned in the release!)

Truthout: Can Union Co-ops Help Save Democracy? July 4, 2013

Soapbox Media: Union Cooperative Initiative works to build sustainable local jobs (December 11, 2012)

Grassroots Economic Organizing: Unions and Worker Co-ops: Working Together Report from the Cincinnati Union Co-ops Symposium

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC): Leveraging Union Support for Business Growth – The Mondragon USA Model

United Steelworkers (webpage): “Examples” (of Union Co-ops)

Videos

WCPO-TV: Co-op grocery store in Walnut Hills hopes to expand healthy food access (March 1, 2022)

WCPO-TV: Can worker-ownership help solve growing economic crisis? Co-op Cincy thinks so (September 15, 2021)

WCPO-TV: Cincy Co-op Business Legacy Fund aims to increase the number of minority-owned businesses in the city (August 22, 2021)

City of Cincinnati: Apple Street Market @ Cincinnati City Council Meeting: Start at 1:07:00- 1:20:00 (December 20, 2017)

Future Focus Media: CUCI Union Co-op Symposium Keynote Isabel Uribe (December, 2017)

Cincinnati Union Co-op Initiative (Facebook): CUCI at Fast Pitch 2017 (March 2017) and Overview Video (January 2017)

Starfire Cincy: Andy's Story - Community Supported Agriculture Supporter (June 20, 2016)

Community Change Forum (from William Woods’s YouTube channel): Kristen Barker’s Lecture (April 2016)

Yes! Magazine: What Does It Take to Start a Worker Co-Op? A Practical Video Guide to Democratizing Our Economy: A new film asks whether practicing workplace democracy would be easier if our media gave us as many visions of collaboration as they do of competition? (February 10, 2015)

Apple Street Market (YouTube): Overview Video (December 4, 2014)

United Steelworkers (YouTube): Worker Ownership for the 99% Press Conference (March 26, 2012)

Radio/Podcasts

Cincinnati Edition on 91.7 WVXU: Could co-op success in Spain be a recipe for economic growth in Greater Cincinnati? (June 26, 2023)

Bloomberg’s The Pay Check Podcast: Spain: A Time-Tested Model for Economic Security (available on Spotify) (June 30, 2022)

Cincinnati Edition on 91.7 WVXU: Is worker ownership the key to Walnut Hills' grocery gap? (April 18, 2022)

Owners at Work Podcast: Cooperative Development in Ohio (featuring Director of Development & Co-op Organizing Ellen Vera) (February 2022)

Cincinnati Edition on 91.7 WVXU: A Huge Number Of Area Business Owners Are Nearing Retirement. Will Workers Take Ownership? (September 22, 2021)

Everything Co-op Podcast & Radio Show: Cynthia Pinchback-Hines, PhD, discusses Racial Justice and Co-op Development (September 16, 2021)

Cincinnati Edition on 91.7 WVXU: Dayton's Coming Co-op Market Builds On A Playbook Developed In Cincinnati (April 20, 2021)

The Union Edge: Ellen Vera – CUCI – Union Workers Co-Ops are How We Make Businesses Equitable (November, 28, 2017)

The Union Edge: Ellen Vera – CUCI – Union Worker CO-OPs Give Workers a Say In How Their Business is Run (November, 22, 2017)

Cincinnati Edition on 91.7 WVXU: Cincinnati Co-op Movement (April 6, 2016)

Abundant Community: Sustainable Jobs, Sustainable Local Economy: A Conversation with Michael Peck, North American Delegate of Mondragon and Kristen Barker, CUCI Co-Founder & President about how co-operatives are emerging as powerful forces of change and the role citizen-workers have in bringing new opportunities and family-sustaining jobs to local neighborhoods (April 5, 2016)

The Union Edge: Why the Worker Owned Co-op Movement is Growing: A 20-minute intro to union co-ops and our work to-date (November 5, 2015)

KSVR Studios – We Do the Work (Skagit Valley Radio): Interview of Kristen Barker on CUCI (July 1, 2014)

Academic & Other Studies

Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal: Breaking New Ground: Social Movement Theory and the Cincinnati Union Co-ops (July 29, 2022)

Frontiers in Communication: Re-Imagining Localism and Food Justice: Co-op Cincy and the Union Cooperative Movement (June 2021)

Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy: Alleviating Food Insecurity Via Cooperative Bylaws (Winter 2019)

Labor Studies Journal: Stronger Together? The USW-Mondragon Union Co-op Model (April 27, 2017)

USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation: Activating Markets for Social Change (April 2016)

Princeton University’s The Woodrow Wilson school’s Graduate Policy Workshop: Worker Cooperatives as an Economic Development Tool (January 2013)

Initiative for a Competitive Inner City: What Works: Leveraging Union Support for Business Growth – the Mondragon USA Model