Guest Blog Post for Solid State: Why We Built The Cleaning Cooperative as a Worker-Owned Business
In 2022, three women sat at a kitchen table, and asked a radical question: “What if cleaning work could be dignified, empowering and even liberating?” What followed was The Cleaning Cooperative (TCC): a worker-owned cleaning co-op built by and for women facing barriers due to racism and discrimination.
Read the full post on Solid State’s blog.
Guest Blog Post for OneSpace: Why Are the Women Who Care for Our Kids and Clean Our Homes Paid So Little?
It’s no coincidence that when an industry’s workforce is primarily women, wages tend to drop. The main offenders are the “5 C’s”: caring, clerical, catering, cashiering, and cleaning. In other words, jobs that mirror the domestic labor women have traditionally been expected to do for free.
Read the full post on the OneSpace blog.
Feature: Cleaning Co-op Offers Empowerment Over Exploitation
The Cleaning Co-op’s journey began in late 2022, born out of a desire to create a different kind of work environment.
Read the full feature on the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation website.
Article in The Tyee: Meet the Cleaners Taking Control of Their Work
Instead of being low-paid employees, they chose to launch a co-operative and be the owners. Check out this article written by The Tyee’s labour reporter, Issac Phan Nay.
Guest Blog Post for Modo: Putting People Over Profit
The cleaning industry can be a dirty business, where exploitation is all too common. The Vancouver Cleaning Cooperative is disrupting the cleaning industry by sweeping away the exploitation of janitorial workers who are often racialized women working in terrible conditions.
Read the full post on Modo’s blog.