[S5 E04] An Interview with Patrick Conlon of WORCS
In this episode of All Things Co-op, Larry and Kevin talk with Patrick Conlon of Worker Ownership Resources and Cooperative Services, otherwise referred to as WORCS.
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About our visitor: Patrick Conlon got his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Cal State Fullerton. Patrick has actually owned and run service based organizations over the last years and observed that standard organization structures restricted the choices for rewarding his workers if they made important contributions. He got thinking about Worker Cooperatives by listening to Dr. Richard Wolff in 2013 which motivated him to bring him to Orange County, Ca to a speaking engagement. Throughout the pandemic he produced the idea of Shopcoop.coop to assist support the development of existing employee cooperatives in addition to utilize the surplus to assist understood cooperatives be successful.
About WORCS: WORCS was established in 2010 by Dr. Lisabeth Ryder, a long-lasting labor activist who has actually been associated with the employee cooperative motion considering that the early 1970 s. WORCS looks for to end up being a driver in the structure of the cooperative sector by producing areas where like minded individuals can fulfill, provide intro on what employee cooperatives are and why they are useful, assistance groups discover organizations to get loans or approaches of raising capital, provide potential worker-owners access to specialists when complex choices require to be made, and deal services that will end up being essential in America’s financial shift into a 21 st century economy.
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