Category: Cooperative
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Cooperativa de Trabajo Textiles Pigüé
The Cooperativa de Trabajo Textiles Pigüé is one of the largest of the empresas recuperadas organized in Argentina in the early 2000s. The former company rose as a national economic anchor in the 1980s, producing for brands like Adidas, and providing jobs to small towns like Pigüé, six hours outside…
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Quebec’s Paramedic Cooperatives
Quebec’s ambulance sector in the 1980s was a tangle of government contracted private companies, with low job quality and service, causing hospital congestion. Workers organized, regulation increased, and many company owners decided to sell rather than face the new reality. The Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux saw an opportunity and between…
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Cooperativa Uruven
Cooperativa Uruven was a worker-owned tannery in Montevideo, Uruguay. The legacy company was founded in the the 1970s and operated until a series of operational and market challenges caused it to close in 1997. Threatened with job loss, the tannery was “productively occupied” by its workers, and run as a…
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Cooperativa Américo Caorsi de Tacuarembó
Cooperativa Américo Caorsi de Tacuarembó is a worker-owned noodle factory with around 25 members in Tacuarembó, Uruguay, about 5 hours from Montevideo. The cooperative was formed in 1964, after a fire shut down a large bakery. 100 bakery workers were unemployed for several years before 80 of them founded the…
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Coopérative de solidarité de Pikogan
The Coopérative de solidarité de Pikogan, founded in 2009, is worker-owned cooperative in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, in the northwest of Quebec. The cooperative has around 90 workers and is affiliated with the Abitibiwinni First Nation, which has a population of around 1,000. The cooperative’s origin is intertwined with other community ownership efforts.…
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Coopérative forestière de la Gaspésie
The Coopérative forestière de la Gaspésie was formed in 2013, as the merger of three smaller forestry cooperatives. The merger came in response to a new regulatory regime and allowed the local companies to reach a scale to compete for contracts with outside firms. In 2020 there were around 140…
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Coopérative forestière Ferland-Boilleau
The Coopérative forestière de Ferland-Boilleau in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec was founded in 1963 as the Syndicat Forestier Ferland-Boilleau, after 30 families lost their logging concession to a large company. The group changed their name from syndicat to chantier in the 1970s, and then to cooperative in the 1980s. The…
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Boisaco
Boisaco is a partnership owned by two worker cooperatives – the forestry co-op COFOR, and a sawmill co-op UNIASCO – and a solidarity cooperative made of community shareholders. The partnership formed in 1985 in the small town of Sacré-Cœur in the Upper North Coast of the St. Lawrence, after the…
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Coopérative forestière St-Dominique
The Coopérative forestière St-Dominique in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec was founded in 1945, originally as a labor union, the Syndicat de travail de St-Dominique du Rosaire, which shared machinery for the clearing of land, and began to focus on logging. In 2004 it acquired a subsidiary in silviculture, Verendrye,…
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Cooperativa TRADOC
Cooperativa Trabajadores Democráticos de Occidente (TRADOC) is a tire manufacturing cooperative outside of Guadalajara. The cooperative launched in 2005 the company now has more than 1,000 workers, and around 600 members. When the factory was built in 1970 it was the most advanced in Latin America. During the 2001 global…
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Cooperativa Pascual
Cooperativa Pascual is a worker cooperative headquartered in Mexico City with around 5,000 workers who took over operations in 1985. The company is a major soft drink producer, with about 15% of the Mexican market and bottling plants in several states. The peso devalued in 1982 when global interest rates…
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Cooperativa La Cruz Azul
Cooperativa Cruz Azul is a cement manufacturer in Hidalgo that was bought by 200 workers as a cooperative in 1931. It now has around 1,400 workers. The company started in 1881. Investors rescued it from bankruptcy in 1906 but then wanted their capital out during the Mexican revolution, and after…