Worker Justice Wisconsin is one of MCDC\u2019s community partners, and has received funding for several years to support education about worker cooperatives to the workers who come to their center, as well as to incubate new cooperatives. Worker Justice Wisconsin bridges the gap of faith and labor, with the goal of supporting workers in creating an organized and empowered working class. They primarily serve non-union, Spanish-speaking immigrant Latine workers, and support workers on issues around wage theft, discrimination, and safety. Their worker cooperative incubation program focuses on four industries that they have identified as problematic for workers: construction, cleaning, landscaping, and food service.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
El Chisme is a local food truck that has converted into a worker cooperative. To celebrate, they are having a launch party on Wednesday, October 25th, from 3pm-6pm at the Madison Labor Temple (1602 South Park Street). This event is also a fundraiser for their new truck.\u00a0 El Chisme\u2019s cooperative conversion has been supported by… Leer m\u00e1s »El Chisme Cooperative Launch<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paWzR5-22n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
And don\u2019t forget<\/strong> that MCDC has several upcoming free educational sessions about cooperatives, starting on October 24th. Visit http:\/\/madpl.org\/coop<\/a> for details and to sign up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2-1024x1024.jpg\")
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