A Place for Food Cooperatives in a Municipal Grocery Framework By Rawnak N. Zaman As a student in the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies’ Workplace Democracy and Cooperative Ownership program and researcher with a […]

Commissioner on Racial Equity leader speaks to Solidarity Economy community On Wednesday, April 1, 2026, a group of over a dozen key solidarity economy organizers, including the Community Worker Ownership Project (CWOP), met to hear […]

A Cooperative Future for Childcare Worker Power in NYC By Abbie Harper As New York City prepares to dramatically expand childcare access, a new report asks a deeper question: who should control the system? In […]

New Mayor Brings Revived Hope For More Solidarity In Our City Greetings in this post election season where we can begin to experience hope for our shared values translating to public policy and programs. In the video […]

CWOP shows up for Co-op Month October 2025 This season has brought many activities to many of us at the Community and Worker Ownership Project. 2025 is the International Year of […]

Dolphin Schools Spring 2025 In the final weeks of the Spring term, 2025, students in the WDCO certificate program debuted their ideas in our “Dolphin Schools”. The Dolphin Schools pro […]

Worker-Led Media: A virtual panel on building a better media economy. Taking Control, Operating with Independence & Building a Better Media Economy By Prajna Brooks On June 11th, 2025, we held a panel discussion with journalists from worker-owned cooperatives. Hosted by the Writers Guild of America […]

Boyfriend Co-op – A Lesbian Bar for All  – Opened March 2025 By Isabella Barbuto Located almost directly at the bustling intersection of Myrtle and Broadway, right off the J, M & Z trains sits a welcoming, eclectic, […]

Radical MunicipalismOn March 13, 2025 Eleanor Finley visited our Urban Studies class Delivery of Urban Public Services so we could explore possibilities and solutions through […]

CUNY SLU’s Solidarity Economy Club Presents: The Role of the Labor Movement in Solidarity Economy  By Rob Persons On May 10, 2024 the newly formed Solidarity Economy Club at CUNY School of Labor & Urban studies hosted its first event. Focusing on […]

CWOP 2023 Year in Review   As we end 2023, we turn to the light of a new year. As hard as the suffering and injustice is this year, and as we know with great sadness that it will […]

Coop Cincy Symposium and the Union Co-op Council Co-op Cincy hosted its symposium in October and we were there along with many from the Union Co-op Council of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. We […]

Network, learn and collaborate more with the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Union Co-op CouncilSign up for the listserve and notifications here: Union Co-ops Council Join our Case Study Working Group CWOP is hosting a collaborative to collect […]

Sociocracy for All, New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives and DAWI at 10 years old! Sociocracy for All In October CWOP and the Murphy Institute at SLU hosted training with SoFA in partnership with Brooklyn Legal Services A. This aimed to […]

Resist & Build: Report Back From the Solidarity Economy Movement On the weekend of October 20th, 2023 two CUNY graduate students affiliated with the Community and Worker Ownership Project (CWOP) at the School of Labor and […]

Our Intern from the Colin Powell School Internship Program- we say thank you! Exploring Worker Justice: A Journey into the Intersection of Immigration, Labor Rights, and Cooperative Business Models By Vanessa Crowe As an […]

Community Education: Co-ops 101 and  A Report from the Field  By Abbie Harper  The paradox of noble-cause corruption, unethical actions taken in pursuit of the greater good, is so prevalent in the non-profit sector […]

Co-op Any Town – Building a Solidarity Economy in place with guests to the class “Cooperative Management for a Changing World” Author: Rob Persons, SLU MA student The economy doesn’t work for the vast majority of people. Wages are low, costs are high, and employers treat workers l […]

A Migrant Worker Mother’s Day Image courtesy of Damayan Migrant Workers Association The real Mother’s Day present is ending forced family separation – says working Filipino mothers w […]