Equal Exchange Blog ... "Our Worker-Owned Cooperative"

Equal Exchange's mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate, through our success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.

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Our Worker-Owned Cooperative

At Equal Exchange we all walk around like we own the place. That's because we all do! Our co-op has over 100 worker-owners, each with an equal stake — and an equal vote — in our business. We believe that we should expect no less from ourselves and each other than we demand of our farmer partners. For that reason we have organized ourselves as a democratic worker co-operative, now one of the largest in the country.

The concepts are simple ....

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We invite you to join our growing community of citizen-consumers who are getting even more deeply involved in Equal Exchange.

We need consumer participation in our organization to build a deeply democratic trade system made up of farmers and their democratic organizations, workers and their democratic organization, and citizen-consumers who now have a democratic space in Equal Exchange as well as their own network. Join us in changing trade, together!

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Local Equal Exchange partners include Grace Presbyterian Chuch, Midland, TX.