Worker-owner sustainable industry one step closer

Susan Price writes that Worker-owner sustainable industry one step closer.

Price writes that:

After a successful crowd-funding campaign that raised the funds for a manufacturing licence, Earthworker Cooperative Australia and Eureka’s Future Workers Cooperative will install their first solar hot water unit in Melbourne on April 15.

Australia definitely lags behind the world with development of manufacturing co-operatives. Australia does have a history of co-operatives in agriculture (especially dairy farming, and sugar cane), and financial institutions (credit unions, and building societies).

It will be interesting to see how this co-operative develops in the future, and how the workers develop their consciousness about their place in the Capitalist system.