Coalition for Worker Ownership and Power

When Halsey Platt started thinking about retirement from his decades-old residential construction business, he had to decide what would happen next.

Worker-owned cooperatives have the potential to be a boon to Black employees.

For the Dorchester Food Co-op (DFC), providing healthy foods and meaningful jobs to its community is a key element of what the organization wants to do when it opens its store later this year, according to Marcos Beleche, president of DFC’s board of directors.