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Co-Op’s in Oregon

Co-Op’s in Oregon. A shared history and opportunities for the future. Coop History in America.

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Co-Op’s in Oregon

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  1. Co-Op’s in Oregon A shared history and opportunities for the future

  2. Coop History in America • The Earth for all the people. That is the demand. The machinery of production and distribution for all the people. That is the demand. The collective ownership and control of industry and its democratic management in the interests of all the people. That is the demand. The elimination of rent, interest, profit, and the production of wealth to satisfy the wants of the people. That is the demand. Cooperative industry in which all shall work together in harmony as a basis of a social order, a higher civilization, a real republic. That is the demand. -Eugene V. Debs, 1902

  3. Native Cooperation

  4. Early Cooperation in N. America

  5. Northwest Native Cooperation

  6. Colonial Cooperation and our Cooperating Founding Fathers

  7. Early Strikers’ Cooperatives

  8. Thought we had an original idea but………….. Philly

  9. Knights of Labor KOL

  10. Capitalist response Cap

  11. IWW IWW

  12. Seattle General Strike SGS

  13. Cooperatives support the strike css

  14. Strike Ends SE

  15. Great Depression and “Self Help” GD & SH

  16. Collectives, Social Justice

  17. Unions Wage Peak in 1972 Unionized members only receive 83% of wages today compared to our peak in 1972 Membership peak in the 1950’s about 36% of the population was unionized Experienced aggressive attack in the 80’s into the 90’s In 2007, the labor department reported the first increase in union memberships in 25 years and the largest increase since 1979 Coops in 1979 1 out of 4 Americans were members There were over 65 Million members of farmers, consumer coop, rural telephone, housing, handicraft, health care, rural electric, and credit unions Additionally 750-1000 small, fewer than 15 members, producer and worker coop’s, some larger 80-350 member plywood coop’s in all around 17,000 members of worker cooperatives in the US By 1989 only a fraction of coop’s remain Peaks

  18. Current types of Coop Governance • Worker or Producer Coop • Social Cooperative • Consumers' Cooperative • Business and Employment Cooperatives (BECs)

  19. Types of Coop’s • Housing Cooperative • Building Cooperative • Utility Cooperative • Agricultural Cooperatives or Farmers' Cooperatives • Credit Unions • Cooperative Federations • Cooperative Wholesale Society • Cooperative Union • Parliamentary Political Party

  20. Support Network

  21. Governmental and international support

  22. Varieties of union/coop arrangements and ESOP’s

  23. Exciting things are happening…

  24. Evergreen and the Cleveland Model

  25. Bringing Cleveland to Oregon

  26. Other opportunities in Oregon

  27. CHCA, social coop with a union

  28. Quebec’s Public employee Coop’s

  29. Conclusion

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