Member Leaders

First and foremost, Fuerza Laboral is its members. We are a community-based organization, and seek to develop local leadership in everything we do.

Worker-Owned Cooperatives

As a Worker-Owned Cooperative Incubator, Fuerza Laboral trains and supports workers to build their own cooperative business that operate with justice and fairness. We also assist existing businesses in transitioning to worker-owned co-ops. We link all of these co-ops together in a supportive network to shift the way business is done in our communities. We call it the Solidarity Economy. The following co-ops are part of our network (click on the names or the icons below for website links):

LUNA Community Care, CERO Cooperative, Inc., RI Birthworker Co-op, White Electric Coffee Co-op, Heartleaf Books Co-op, Four Buds Floral Studio, Nuts and Bolts Nursery, PVD Flowers Co-op, CommonPlace, 3D Anatomy Studios, Break the Cycle Cooperative Hub, Sol Power

We are currently in the process of building a construction finishing trades (drywall, painting, flooring) co-op that will be a union signatory with IUPAT DC 11 Painters’ Union.