Home care cooperatives: Worker ownership in focus

Wisconsin Long Term Care Workforce Alliance

This paper explores the use of worker-owned home care cooperatives as a strategy to create a more stable long-term care workforce. The authors highlight three different models of worker-owned home care cooperatives: the job-training model, the cooperative conversion model, and the multi-stakeholder model. The authors argue that home care cooperatives offer workers a number of benefits including: living wage jobs, a democratic organizational culture, and the opportunity to take part in quality care giving.