United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives

Meetings

• 2006 New York City
• 2008 New Orleans
• 2009 Madison
• 2010 San Francisco
• 2011 Austin, TX
• 2012 Boston
• 2016 Austin
• 2018 Los Angeles

  Membership

• Worker Cooperatives include organizations that meet the standard for a democratic workplace according to the CICOPA World Declaration on Worker Co-operatives.
• Democratic Workplaces include organizations that may fall short of the World Declaration, but still exist as a democratic workplace such a democratic ESOPs owned by 100% of its workers.
• Federation Partners include any local and regional association of three or more workplaces.
• Cooperative Developers receive one vote per developer.
• Start-up Workplace include organizations that are either in a start-up mode or transitioning to a worker co-operative from another type of business.
• Associates are organizations that support worker co-operatives and worker rights but do not exist as a worker co-operative, collective or democratic workplace. Consumer co-operatives, labor unions, and ESOPs with less than 100% worker control are examples. This class does not have any voting rights.
• Individual Allies may join the organization but do not have any voting rights.

  Board of directors

• Eastern Representative - Aaron Dawson
• Northern Representative - Rebecca Kemble
• Western Representative - Yilda Campos
• Southern Representative - Anna Boyer
• At Large Directors
• *Ben Mauer
• *David Smathers Moore
• *Scott Crow