navigation search united states federation of worker cooperatives type cooperative federation industry worker owned enterprises founded 2004 2004 headquarters san francisco california united states area served united states key people melissa hoover executive director 1 members worker cooperatives co operative developers worker co operative regional networks and individuals number of employees 1 website usworker.coop the united states federation of worker cooperatives usfwc is a federation of worker cooperatives in the united states . usfwc was founded at the u.s. conference of democratic workplaces in minneapolis minnesota in may 2004 . 2 the federation was sponsored by the cooperative foundation in addition to other cooperative support organizations . it was created partly in response to growing regional organizing among united states worker cooperatives and to foster the sharing of information and resources between national gatherings . 3 contents 1 meetings 2 membership 3 board of directors 4 see also 5 references 6 external links meetings edit the membership meets annually . the federation also holds a bi annual conference called the democracy at work conference in conjunction with the annual meeting . the schedule for the meetings conference is as follows 2006 new york city and conference 2008 new orleans and conference 2009 madison 2010 san francisco and conference 2011 austin tx 2012 boston and conference membership edit the usfwc has several membership classes 4 worker cooperatives include organizations that meet the standard for a democratic workplace according to the cicopa world declaration on worker co operatives . democratic workplaces include organizations that may fall short of the world declaration but still exist as a democratic workplace such a democratic esops owned by 100 % of its workers . federation partners include any local and regional association of three or more workplaces . cooperative developers receive one vote per developer or organization of developers . start up workplace include organizations that are either in a start up mode or transitioning to a worker co operative from another type of business . associates are organizations that support worker co operatives and worker rights but do not exist as a worker co operative collective or democratic workplace . consumer co operatives labor unions and esops with less than 100 % worker control are examples . this class does not have any voting rights . individual allies may join the organization but do not have any voting rights . board of directors edit the federation is governed by a nine member board of directors . the board oversees the federation and the executive director . the current board of directors of the federation includes eastern representative aaron dawson northern representative rebecca kemble western representative yilda campos southern representative anna boyer at large directors ben mauer david smathers moore scott crow see also edit network of bay area worker cooperatives worker cooperative references edit woo beadsie ; hoover melissa . to jumpstart us job market turn workers into owners . the christian science monitor . 11 jan. 2010 . hoover melissa . farther faster together the us federation of worker cooperatives at two . geo newsletter . introducing green worker cooperatives . sustainable business . 17 june 2004 . http www.usworker.coop membership external links edit united states federation of worker cooperatives web site v t e cooperatives and mutual organizations types of cooperative by governance consumer cooperative federation list cooperative wholesale society worker list employee ownership workers self management workers control workplace democracy business and employment co operative purchasing retailers cooperative other social cooperative agent owned company by purpose banking credit union mutual savings bank savings and loan association building society housing building cohousing student housing housing society egalitarian intentional community agricultural collective farming reforestation winemaking wheat pool utility list community wind energy electric telephone mutual education anarchistic free school homeschool democratic education learning by teaching mutual insurance health insurance cooperative other food list recycling topics identity rochdale principles ica statement on the cooperative identity political and economic theories co operative economics cooperative federalism distributism economic democracy mutualism neo capitalism owenism social enterprise socialism socially responsible investing solidarity economy key theorists g. d. h. cole charles gide david griffiths william king robert owen friedrich raiffeisen david schweickart rochdale pioneers beatrice webb by region canada ukraine united kingdom united states organizations list of cooperatives worker energy federations international co operative alliance co operative party history of the cooperative movement . coop retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title united states federation of worker cooperatives & oldid 647149170 categories worker cooperativescooperative federationsmutualism movement organizations established in 2004 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 14 february 2015 at 20 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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