Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives explained

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
• 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

Notes and References

1. Gans, Lydia. Be Your Own Boss, Join a Collective. The Berkeley Daily Planet. 29 July 2005.