A recent survey by Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center found 80% of the farm workers are interested
Guatemalan workers left in a lurch without pay after the Colorado Mushroom Farminto bankruptcy are exploring a remedy to regain their jobs and boost the San Luis Valley’s ailing economy: run the company themselves as a worker-owned cooperative.
Workers around Colorado over the past three years have created scores of employee-owned enterprises, which can receive state support. Proponents tout these arrangements as a way to increase social justice by reducing the exploitation and mistreatment of workers. Gov. Jared Polis has supported the concept. In metro Denver, more than 1,000 ridesharing workers are in the process of organizing a worker-owned driver cooperative.
In the San Luis Valley, initial conversations with 80 of the workers revealed most would return to work under a new ownership structure if possible, Ji said. The Colorado Mushroom Farm, located on a 51-acre site northeast of Alamosa, has supplied fresh Portabella and other mushrooms to restaurants and grocers around the Rocky Mountain West for nearly 40 years. It has employed up to 260 workers, mostly Guatemalans who speak an indigenous language, producing up to 13 million pounds a year.
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