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About six months into the pandemic, an Ohio-based cooperative network received an influx of requests from small businesses that wanted to turn themselves into worker-owned co-ops.

For a lot of folks, they have been unhappy with how their current jobs, the current economy has been working for them.

And the idea of being part of something truly holding workers as the most important piece

is really, really attractive.

That's Ellen Beera.

She's the director of co-op organizing at Co-op SINCII, a network of around a dozen cooperative businesses

in Cincinnati, Ohio, where workers manage, own, and ultimately share in the profits of their labor.

Co-OPSCENCENCENCENC has been around for about a decade, but in that fall of 2020 alone,

it got applications to help another dozen businesses go co-op. One of the

businesses that reached out was the Shine Nurture Center, a Montessori-style daycare next to the

lush Mount Airy Forest in Cincinnati. As the pandemic dragged on, its founder and owner wanted to

move on. Like many people, she was reevaluating her life and decided to go back

to school. But she didn't want to shut down the center she'd built and run for the last six years.

So she decided to sell it, to the teachers who worked there. My name is Beth Pegg. I work here

at Shine Nurture Center Cooperative, and I'm currently the office

manager. We are a nature-based center, so we're mostly outside in Mount Airy. We're very lucky we have

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