As Canada reopens the business community and we reach for a New Normal, we ask some tough questions. Many people are unemployed, including people who have lost their businesses. Is there a better way forward? What have we learned about ourselves, business and the economy that suggests that we should consider more seriously the worker co-operative business model?
Should we focus more on collaborative value generation and less on market competition?
It is also now more clear than ever that Alberta has to diversify away from its dependence on the giant oil and gas companies. Is Alberta ready to make a shift toward the worker co-op business model in emerging industries?
What next!
Worker co-ops, like other forms of co-operatives, have long been a successful way of generating value and doing business. No one knows this better than Hazel Corcoran. As we recover from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are bracing for the full economic consequences and also anticipating the second wave. As it is our social human nature that draws us together in good times and bad, what does this mean for doing business? Is there a new opportunity to raise awareness and mobilize more people into workers co-ops from the ranks of the unemployed and broken businesses?
The Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation is a national, bilingual membership organization of and for worker-owned co-operatives and organizations that support their growth and development. The Vision of the CWCF: To be a growing, cohesive network of democratically controlled worker co-ops that provide a high quality of work life, and support the development of healthy, just and sustainable local economies, based on co-operative values and principles. –
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