Annual Celebration & 3rd Biennial Union Co-op Symposium
from Friday, December 1, 2017 7:30AM to Saturday, December 2, 2017 4:00PM
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Annual Celebration Annual Celebration will be the evening of December 1 from 6:30-8:30 pm at Christ Church Cathedral (318 East 4th St). The Annual Celebration will feature: Tasty tapas, incredible local produce from Our Harvest Cooperative, Meet and Greet with union cooperative initiatives, music, inspiration, and fun! we will be announcing Co-op U and a new way of preserving manufacturing and industrial jobs. Stand Up & Build: Creating Worker-Owned Co-ops to Reduce Inequality See full schedule On Dec 1st & 2nd, people from across the U.S. and from Mondragon, Spain will be in Cincinnati to further develop the union co-op sector of the U.S. economy. The event brings together over 200 workers, union and community organizers, and business and religious leaders to learn from one another and from the economically thriving Mondragon system (the largest group of worker-owned cooperatives). During the last 61 years, the Mondragon cooperative network has transformed a devastated, war-torn region of Spain rife with poverty and unemployment into thriving, vibrant communities that have weathered a financial crisis. Mondragon’s network, which includes more than 100 cooperatives and 74,000 worker-owners, generated more than $12 billion in sales in 2016. The union co-op movement in the U.S. is growing, including four businesses that are part of the Cincinnati Union Co-op Initiative (CUCI), organizer of the symposium. The symposium will focus on progress being made to establish integrated networks of worker-owned, unionized businesses. Participants will discuss best practices, union co-op management, financing, training, the power of the union co-op model, and ways to build an economy that works for all. The Symposium will feature: a delegation from Mondragon, one of the world’s most successful networks of cooperatives and CUCI’s inspiration and model; the first national 1Worker1Vote General Assembly, laying the foundation for the national co-op of co-ops, a huge milestone in our development; and other renowned speakers. We have designed this program not only to inspire, but to build capacity for cooperatives and demonstrate the importance of building a network of cooperatives. Sponsorship We invite you to join us and sponsor our biennial national symposium and our Cincinnati Union Co-op Initiative Annual Celebration. The theme for both events is Stand Up and Build: Creating Worker-Owned Co-ops to Reduce Inequality. The Symposium will be December 1 and 2, 2017. This year the Symposium is estimated to draw over 200 people from across the country to learn techniques to build union co-ops and benefits of linking them in a network. To become a sponsor, email Ellen Vera at Please [email protected]. Sponsorship includes: (Please see the attached list of the levels of sponsorship for further information) attendance at the Symposium tickets to the Annual Celebration recognition on our website an ad in the Symposium program Full sponsorship levels. LOCATIONS: Union Co-op Symposium & Economy that Works for All party: Christ Church Cathedral318 East 4th StreetCincinnati, OH 45202 Housing We have reserved a block of rooms for $99 per night plus taxes (excitingly up to 4 people could split that room rate) at the Millennium Hotel, located at 150 W 5th St. /Cincinnati, OH 45202. To reserve a room at this rate, you must ask to make a reservation and reference that you are with the Cincinnati Union Co-op Group. To reserve your room, either: call the hotel toll free at (513) 352-2100 or (800) 876-2100 fax their reservation to (513) 357-8688 using this information page make reservations online You must reserve your room by November 12th. Join us in December to continue to grow the Union Cooperative Movement and to create more family sustaining jobs. Please contact Ellen Vera if you have any questions or need further information, [email protected]. Thank you for your support!
Christ Church Cathedral
318 East 4th Street Cincinnati OH USType: Eventbrite