2021-01-31

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Nice little story on a cafe in New Orleans transitioning to worker co-op, working with Cooperation New Orleans.

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/eat-drink/article_8ecf49a4-5cec-11eb-bdf9-7f7bdac1a89e.html

https://coopnola.org/who-we-are

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Interesting critique of worker coops. Main argument seems to be that they remove people from union organising and class struggle.

https://organizing.work/2021/01/you-cant-win-without-a-fight-why-worker-cooperatives-are-a-bad-strategy/

cooperatives retreat from the direct struggle between workers and owners to instead build worker-owners.

Not sure I get it… thoughts?

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Interview with Omana George of Electronics Watch.

She discusses some of the problems in electronics supply chains, and the general anti-union and anti-organising practices of tech firms.

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