The Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC - pronounced "No Boss") is a network of worker cooperatives dedicated to building workplace democracy in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1]
NoBAWC was founded in September 1994 when workers representing nine worker cooperatives met to address their isolation and to build a worker cooperative movement in the region. Twelve years later, NoBAWC comprises over 30 dues-paying workplaces with a paid staff. NoBAWC is a member of the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives.
Members
- AK Press
- Arizmendi Bakery
- Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives
- Berkeley Free Clinic
- BioFuel Oasis
- Bound Together Bookstore
- Box Dog Bikes
- Cheese Board
- City Art Gallery
- Cricket Courier Cooperative
- Cupid Courier Collective
- Design Action Collective
- Electric Embers
- Heartwood Cooperative Woodshop
- Inkworks Press
- Juice Bar Collective
- Liberation Ink
- Lusty Lady
- Mandela Foods Cooperative
- Market Street Cooperative
- Missing Link Bicycle Cooperative
- Modern Times Bookstore
- Nabolom Bakery
- 924 Gilman Street Project
- Other Avenues Food Store
- Pedal Express
- Points of Distribution
- Rainbow Grocery Cooperative
- Red Vic Movie House
- Rock Paper Scissors Collective
- San Francisco Community Colocation Project
- Suigetsukan Martial Arts School
- TechCollective
External links
- NOBAWC
- Be Your Own Boss, Join a Collective, Berkeley Daily Planet (7/29/2005)
- A World Without Bosses?, AlterNet (7/2/2005)
See also
- Berkeley Student Cooperative
- Berkeley Student Food Collective
References
- ^ Gans, Lydia. Be Your Own Boss, Join a Collective. The Berkeley Daily Planet. 29 July 2005.