Global Justice Center Members Participate in Workers Economy Meeting
Over 80 co-op and union activists and scholars participated in the 2nd North American & Caribbean Regional Encounter of the Workers' Economy in Mexico City November 2-5, 2016. The Center sent six delegates, led by CGJ co-op organizer Yolanda Millán (not in the group photo). Worker-controlled TRADOC-Blackstone Tires in Guadalajara and New Era Windows & Doors in Chicago (formerly Republic Windows & Doors) were among recuperated factories represented by workers who had been delegated by their newly launched cooperatives. This was one of three regional gatherings leading to a global meeting of the Workers' Economy that will take place from August 30 to September 2, 2017, in Buenos Aires/Pigüé, Argentina.
Additional encounters in this same October-November period included the 2nd Euromediterranean Workers Economy Meeting in These gatherings built on the experiences of five previous international gatherings of The Workers’ Economy in Buenos Aires (2007, 2009); Mexico City (2011); João Pessoa, Brazil (2013), and Venezuela (2015); and the regional gatherings in Europe, in the Fralib worker-recuperated factory in Marseille (2014); in South America, in the Textiles Pigüe worker-recuperated factory in Argentina (2014); and in North America at the Universidad Obrera de Ciudad de México, (2014).
*/ Photo: Left to right: Bob Stone, Global Justice board; Andres Ruggeri, animator of the Workers' Economy movement; Gilberto Perez, peace & co-op activist; Armando Robles, a leader of the Republic Window & Door occupation & cooperativization; Betsy Bowman, Global Justice board.