Interested in democratic workplaces? Check out our complete coverage from The Real News’ Jaisal Noor of how worker cooperatives rose to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the third part of TRNN’s series exploring how co-ops survived the pandemic, Jaisal Noor speaks to worker-owners at Red Emma’s, one of Baltimore oldest co-ops, and Joe Squared, which reopened as a co-op after closing in March 2020, about how the cooperative model informed their pandemic response. We also look at how loan funds support co-ops and helped them survive a pandemic that wiped out some 100,000 small businesses across the U.S.