About

Cooperation Worcester is an alliance of 9+ cooperatives and chapter of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives with the following goals:

• • Community Development in communities hit hardest by deindustrialization, prison system, immigration, ageism and racism.

• • Creation of democratic places of dignified work.

• • Wealth and resource building.
  • Social and economic justice.

We use these Principal Strategies:

• Leveraging the purchasing power of anchor institutions to grow the local co-op movement. 
  • More info on We Own It campaign we’ve been planning for a few years: http://www.worcestersagealliance.org/?p=624
• Engage with economic development projects to secure local purchasing, such as Community Benefits Agreements with the Worcester Community Labor Coalition
• Encouraging Union – Cooperative collaboration including participating in the US Federation of Worker Co-op’s Union Co-op Council and educating other members of the Worcester Community Labor Coalition
• Form a new entity (possibly a co-op where members are co-ops) that helps us get purchasing agreements and have administrative capacity to fulfill the agreements (we support Worcester Roots’ Co-op Academy).