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Worker-owned Cooperatives

Another successful model is under development in California. The Association of Arizmendi Cooperatives is an effort to apply some of the lessons learned from European worker cooperative networks to the United States. Individuals inspired by the European models created a technical assistance cooperative to replicate successful cooperatives in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Association's first project is creating a chain of mutually supportive bakeries based on Berkeley's Cheese Board, a 40-member, more than $2 million a year collective founded 28 years ago. The Association´s first replication, located in Oakland, has been wildly successful, and is now the training ground for the soon-to-open San Francisco bakery, the new bakery is named "Arizmendi" in honor of the Basque cooperative pioneer.

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