Other Worker Cooperatives

The largest worker cooperative in the world and the Model for all of us:
Mondragon. Corporation

AK Press (Oakland, CA)
Alvarado Street Bakery (Petaluma, CA)
Artichoke Food Co-operative (Worcester, MA)
An Inn & Hostel Alexander House Inn & Hostel, Charlottesville, VAA
Arizmendi Bakery Coöperative (San Francisco Bay Area, California) (Father José María Arizmendiarrieta Madariaga (22 April 1915 – 29 November 1976) was the founder of the Mondragon worker cooperative movement in Basque, Spain).
Arizmendi Development and Support Collective
At-Hand Apps, LLC (Newton, MA)

A child care service Beyond Care, Brooklyn, NY
BeetBox Wholesale Vegan Bakery, Denver, CO
A health food supermarket and general store The Big Carrot – Toronto, Canada
An architectural and construction firm Big TimberWorks Homes,
Gallatin Gateway, MT
Black Bear Bakery (St. Louis, Missouri)
An anarchist collective bookstore Bound Together, San Francisco, CA
Brattleboro Tech Collective (Brattleboro, VT)
Bread And Roses Food Cooperative (Tallahassee, FL)
Breitenbush Hot Springs (Detroit, OR)
A Bicycle store   Broadway Bicycle School, Cambridge, MA
An Architectural and construction firm Builders Commonwealth, Duluth, MN

C4 Tech & Design (New Orleans, LA[)
Casa Nueva Restaurant, Cantina & Bodega (Athens, OH)
Cheese Board Collective (Berkeley, CA)
An optical filters manufacturer Chroma Technology Corp, Rockingham, VT
Installation and maintainance of food-producing gardens C’Ville Foodscapes, Charlottesville, VA
Chicago Technology Cooperative (Chicago, IL)
Citybikes Workers’ Cooperative (Portland, OR)
A chain of three copy and print centers CollectiveCopies, Amherst, MAA co-op of 1,600
An international restaurant Colors, New York, NY
Community Builders Cooperative
Home care providers Cooperative Home Care Associates, New York, NY
Cooperative Care of Wisconsin (WI)
Cooperative Development Institute (MA)
Co-Soap Cooperative (Oakland, CA)
Cricket Courier Cooperative (CA)
Cupid Courier Collective (CA)

Design Action Collective A web-design Collective in Oakland, CA
Dollars and Sense (Boston, MA)

Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy (US – NE)
Recycling drop-off centers across Central Texas  Ecology Action, Austin, TX
Electric Embers
A women owned gourmet cooking co-op  Émigré Gourmet, Brooklyn, NY
Equal Exchange (West Bridgewater, MA)
Evergreen Cooperatives (Cleveland, OH)

Firestorm Cafe & Books (NC)
Food for Thought Books (Amherst, MA)
Free Geek (Portland, OR)

GAIA Host Collective
GEO – Grassroots Economic Organizing (US)
Glut Food Coop (est. 1969) (Mt Rainier, MD) Has Alternative Currency too!!!
A Wool spinnery The Green Mountain Spinnery, Putney, VT
Green Worker Cooperatives (The Bronx, NY)

Hard Times Café (Minneapolis, MN)
Heartwood Cooperative Woodshop (Berkeley, CA)
The Hub Bike Co-op (Minneapolis, MN)

ICA-Group set up worker cooperatives, ESOPs, etc (MA)
Inkworks Press (Berkeley, CA
Isthmus Engineering and Manufacturing

Juice Bar Collective (CA)
Just Coffee Cooperative (WI)

Liberation Ink (CA)
Local Sprouts Cooperative (ME)
Lucy Parsons Center (Boston, MA)
Lusty Lady (Seattle, WA and San Francisco, CA)

Mandela Foods Cooperative (CA)
Mandela Marketplace (part of MFC)
Mariposa Food Co-op Philadelphia, PA
Market Street Cooperative This is a Medical Marijuana Dispensary in SF that went out of business – recently – website is still up 1/7/12
Maybeck High School A worker coop High School – wow (CA)
Mintwood Media Collective P.R. Firm (Washington, DC)
Missing Link Bicycle Co-operative (CA)
Mission Asset Fund helping immigrants save for citizenship fees (CA)
Modern Times Bookstore (CA)
Monkeywrench Books (TX)

Nabolom Bakery
New Belgium Brewing Company (Fort Collins, CO)
Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC)
Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund (MN)
924 Gilman Street Project (CA)
Northland Poster Collective

Olympia Food Co-op
Other Avenues Food Store
Ownership Appalachia, LLC (NC)

Partnerships for People/Breaking Barriers (NJ)
Pedal Express
Pedal People Cooperative (Northampton, MA)
Pelham Auto Parts (Belchertown MA)
People’s Food Cooperative (OR)
Points of Distribution (CA)
A shipyard Port Townsend Shipwrights, Port Townsend, WA
Pioneer Valley Photovoltaics (Greenfield, MA and New Britain CT)
Quilted (CA)

Radical Designs (CA)
Rainbow Grocery Cooperative
Red and Black Cafe (Portland, OR)
Red Emmas Bookstore Coffeehouse (Baltimore, MD)
Red Sun Press (Boston, MA)
Red Vic Movie House (CA)
René Pujol Restaurant Cooperative New York’s first Restaurant Cooperative formed from a 35 year old family run restaurant, serving classical French Fare in a wonderful space. (NYC)
Ronin Tech Collective (VT)

San Diego Day Laborers Association (CA)
SF Community Land Trust (CA)
Seward Community Cafe (Minneapolis, MN)
Shot In The Dark Cafe (Tucson, AZ)
South Mountain Company
Stumptown Printers (OR)
Suigetsukan Martial Arts School (CA)
Sunshine Propane (WA)

Teamworks Cooperative Network (CA)
TechCollective
Third Coast Workers for Cooperation (TX)
Toxic Soil Busters Co-op (MA)

Try Arm Underwear (Thailand)
Tribe Creative Agency (TX)
Twin Ports Commonwealth (Twin Ports)

Union Cab of Madison Cooperative
Unicorn Grocery (UK)

Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives (MA)

WAGES (CA)
A house and office cleaning cooperative We can do it! Si se puede!, Brooklyn, NY
Web Collective, Inc.
A hybrid consumer, worker, producer coop West End Food Coop
Woodshanti Cooperative Cabinetry & Millwork (CA)
Workers Diner (NY)

European Worker Coops

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