The Cooperative Path to Starting a Business
by Robert McGarvey
Call it a secret pathway to a business startup. That’s exactly what the cooperative business structure is, where the workers own the business — and, hold on, isn’t that communism? Nope — that’s because a worker-owned cooperative is intended to be a profit-making business, but the profits are split among the worker-owners.
Right now might be a golden time for worker cooperatives.