How Worker Co-ops Work
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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The worker co-op has a rich tradition and can work a variety of ways. Join us as we dig into the nuts and bolts.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.2 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too and this is stuff you should know. |
| 0:21.6 | And it turns out that this is stuff you should know about worker cooperatives, which you might be more familiar with as co-ops, not COPS. |
| 0:31.6 | That's why they put the hyphen in there because it can get pretty confusing. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah. In fact, I went back when I titled this episode for Jerry and added that hyphen because |
| 0:42.6 | Jerry would say, what is this thinking about Coupes? |
| 0:45.8 | Yep. |
| 0:46.7 | Yep. |
| 0:47.2 | And I'm sure Aaron Cooper's like, oh, but don't get your hopes up, Aaron. |
| 0:51.6 | We're not talking about you. |
| 0:53.1 | Wait, we just did. |
| 0:54.1 | It's finally happened. |
| 0:57.0 | So, Chuck, just let me lay the scene here for a second. |
| 1:01.5 | Okay? |
| 1:02.5 | Because co-ops, especially for those of us in the United States, they're, like, I can think of one, and that is in Atlanta. |
| 1:12.3 | And it is called Sevenanda, and it is one of the few vegetarian grocery stores in the entire country. That's my |
| 1:17.9 | experience with a co-op, right? Yeah, Sevenanda, legendary store. It is, and it's great. A great, |
| 1:24.3 | great grocery store. So they're kind of like this almost like fringe thing, |
| 1:29.4 | especially in the U.S. and, you know, basically everywhere, they're not really mainstream. |
| 1:33.8 | But there was a time where there are people who are like, this is the way to go. This is how |
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