Community & Worker Ownership Project (CWOP)

CWOP pursues these aims through:

• Training and workshops that bring non-credit courses and workshops to CUNY sites for existing and potential cooperative worker/owners.
• Degree Programs, See our Graduate Level certificate in Workplace Democracy & Community Ownership. With four courses, this certificate can  be taken at SLU as part of masters study in Urban or Labor Studies OR on its own for professional development.
• Partnerships with Unions and Coops, Business conversions and Start-Ups to support coop businesses collaboration with organized labor, worker centers, community-based organizations and industry sectors.
• Public programming for discussion of challenges of and possibilities for expanding worker ownership, workplace democracy and grassroots voice in community development.
• Research to evaluate economic and social justice impact of cooperative ownership and democratic engagement.

A UnionToolkit for Cooperative Solutions

The Worker Coop Resource Guide for Skills and Services, created in the summer of 2017, is a catalogue that represents many of the resources in our city-wide collaboration, facilitated by the New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYCNOWC) and the CUNY’s School of Labor & Urban Studies.

• Please see our blog for current news and activities
• Advanced Certificate in Workplace Democracy and Community Ownership
• Owner to Owners campaign – Steering Committee Chair for Workforce Cluster
• OUR ECONOMY! Economic Democracy and System Change Conference
• The Future Works Podcast – March 8th 2021