Worker-Owned Factory Open for Business: Buy New Era Windows!

There is a practical alternative to Dickensian workplaces that treat employees like serfs, and there are more of them succeeding every day.

Diane Sweet at Crooks and Liars:



After a lot of labor and learning, the workers who famously occupied the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago in '08 are opening a new cooperative business: New Era Windows. Laura Flanders discusses the journey with Brendan Martin of The Working World and three of the worker-owners.

You can watch the full show here.

Learn more about worker cooperatives here.