Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy: Growing Stronger Together

photos of worker-owned cooperative workplaces

5th Biennial
Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy

Democracy Works: Worker Cooperatives, Labor Solidarity, and Sustainability

Co-Hosted By:

Small Planet Institute
The Ohio Employee Ownership Center
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Pittsburgh

Friday to Sunday, July 31 to August 2, 2009
Duquesne University * Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Thank you to everyone that attended and supported the conference!

Articles written about the conference:

Worker and Community: Coops Gather in Rust Belt: Pittsburgh to Build Solidarity
By Carl Davidson

Supporters

Patrons:

Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy (Conference Organizer and Host)
Equal Exchange
Red Sun Press
U. S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives

Sponsors:

Carey Center for Democratic Capitalism
Chroma Technology
Collective Copies
Cooperative Development Institute
Cooperative Fund of New England
Cooperative Home Care Associates
East End Food Co-op
Gaia Host Collective
Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective
National Cooperative Business Association
Ownership Associates
Southern New Hampshire University School of Community Economic Development

Contributors:

Cooperative Development Foundation | City University of NY Grad Center for Worker Education
Community Builders Co-op | Democracy Collaborative at University of MD
Dollars and Sense Magazine | Praxis Consulting
South Mountain Company | Ronin Tech Collective
Steel Valley Authority | Vermont Employee Ownership Center