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Unions should embrace new wave of worker co-operatives
Across the world a new model of worker-owned co-ops is bucking neoliberal austerity, says NICK MATTHEWS

There is no doubt that trade unions and worker co-operatives have the same roots. 

Both are attempts by workers to retain more of the value of what they produce and more control over how it is produced. Indeed when you look at the very early trade unions they look more like co-operatives. 

In more recent history unions and co-ops have not always been on the best of terms. 

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