The Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC - pronounced "No Boss") is a network of worker cooperative

Worker cooperative

A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and democratically managed by its worker-owners. This control may be exercised in a number of ways. A cooperative enterprise may mean a firm where every worker-owner participates in decision making in a democratic fashion, or it may refer to one in which...

s dedicated to building workplace democracy

Workplace democracy

Workplace democracy is the application of democracy in all its forms to the workplace....

 in the San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...

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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 30 dues-paying workplaces with a paid staff. NoBAWC is a member of the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives

United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives

The United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives is a federation of worker cooperatives in the United States. USFWC was founded at the U.S. Conference of Democratic Workplaces in Minneapolis, Minnesota in May 2004.....

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Members

• AK Press
  AK Press
  AK Press is a worker-managed independent publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical left and anarchist literature. It is collectively owned and operated.-History:...
  
  
• Arizmendi
• Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives
• Berkeley Free Clinic
  Berkeley Free Clinic
  The Berkeley Free Clinic is a nonprofit community clinic located in Berkeley, California, USA. It is operated as a worker-run collective by over a hundred volunteers. It has provided free medical and dental care since 1969. They also offer peer counseling services...
  
  
• 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
  Lusty Lady
  The Lusty Lady is the name of a peep show establishment in the North Beach district of San Francisco. It was also the name of another now-defunct location in downtown Seattle...
  
  
• Mandela Foods Cooperative
• Market Street Cooperative
• Modern Times Bookstore
• Nabolom Bakery
• 924 Gilman Street Project
• Other Avenues Food Store
• Pedal Express
• Points of Distribution
• Rainbow Grocery Cooperative
  Rainbow Grocery Cooperative
  Rainbow Grocery Cooperative is a worker owned and run food cooperative located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1975, Rainbow Grocery is a member of NoBAWC and the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives....
  
  
• 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, Berkley Daily Planet (7/29/2005)
• A World Without Bosses?, AlterNet
  AlterNet
  AlterNet, a project of the non-profit Independent Media Institute, is a progressive/liberal activist news service. Launched in 1998, AlterNet now claims a readership of over 3 million visitors per month .AlterNet publishes original content as well as journalism from a wide variety of other sources...
  
  (7/2/2005)