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| Isthmus Engineering & Manufacturing - a Worker Owned Cooperative |
 | | Established as a "worker's cooperative", the success of our employee-owned company is contingent on the performance of the entire team. You have our promise that the product we provide will be the result of the very best efforts of our entire staff. |
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| What is a Cooperative? | | Many people are familiar with the concept of cooperatives; organizations designed to pool the resources of individuals or businesses to achieve a common goal.
There are many different types of cooperatives including producer, consumer, and worker.
Isthmus Engineering is an industrial worker cooperative. |
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| What is a Worker Cooperative? | | Worker cooperatives are a type of producer cooperative in which the members are the working staff.
Management decisions are made democratically: one member - one vote.
Each member shares in the responsibility of managing the business. |
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| The Seven Cooperative Principles: | |
- Open membership - no gender, social, racial, political or religious discrimination
- Democratic control - one member, one vote
- Equitable economic participation among members and distribution of profits based on patronage
- Autonomy and independence - controlled by members
- Education and training
- Cooperation among cooperatives
- Concern for community
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| | | | 4035 Owl Creek Drive :: Madison, WI 53718-4405 :: 608.222.9000 | | (c) Isthmus Engineering and Manufacturing. | | Isthmus Engineering is a Worker-owned Cooperative | | Site developed by acumium |
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