Episodi

  • Replacing Banks with Savings Clubs w/ Rob Callender

    Replacing Banks with Savings Clubs w/ Rob Callender
    May 14 2026
    There are a couple of thousand people working in worker co-ops across the UK. Collectively, that represents millions of pounds sitting idly in separate bank accounts, where it’s used by banks to pay shareholders and invest in things many of us would strongly oppose. What would it look like to pool more of that money... Read more »
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    27 min
  • How to Resolve Conflict Cooperatively w/ Paul Kahawatte

    How to Resolve Conflict Cooperatively w/ Paul Kahawatte
    Mar 19 2026
    Conflict is an inevitability, but most of us are surprisingly bad at dealing with it. We fall back on habits like avoidance, passive aggression, or lashing out. In a cooperative, when we’ve come together to increase our collective capacity, unresolved tensions can quickly bog us down, drain the energy and lead to disengagement. So what... Read more »
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    37 min
  • Berlin’s Cleaning Co-op for Migrants w/ Rupay Dahm

    Berlin’s Cleaning Co-op for Migrants w/ Rupay Dahm
    Feb 17 2026
    Rupay is an employment lawyer in Germany, fighting for workers’ rights. Frustrated, working in a system rigged against workers, he sought out more empowering alternatives and discovered worker cooperatives. After years of researching and advising them as a lawyer, he went on to write A Practical Guide to Democratising Companies and to co-found a cooperative... Read more »
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    29 min
  • The Success of Unicorn Grocery Worker Co-op w/ Corrina O’Brien

    The Success of Unicorn Grocery Worker Co-op w/ Corrina O’Brien
    Jan 14 2026
    Starting off as a small shop operating out of a loading bay to a thriving worker co-op that owns its own the entire building, has around 50 dedicated members and is a shining example of what worker cooperatives can accomplish. In this episode of Punchcard, Corrina and I talk about how Unicorn has become such... Read more »
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    22 min
  • Classism in Cooperatives w/ Elle Glenny

    Classism in Cooperatives w/ Elle Glenny
    Dec 11 2025
    Unfortunately not everybody’s experience of cooperatives is positive. For Elle, their time in co-operatives was both transformative, but also painful, marred by classism that often goes unnamed. In this episode of Punchcard, Elle and I talk about what classism looks like in co-ops, how we can transform it and why inclusion isn’t enough. Listen to... Read more »
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    44 min
  • How I Escaped the Corporate World w/ Abbas Shapuri

    How I Escaped the Corporate World w/ Abbas Shapuri
    Nov 11 2025
    Abbas Shapuri’s journey into the worker co-operative movement is not a typical one. Many worker co-operators arrive from the “alternative” or activist scenes. Abbas, however, came from the heart of capitalism: corporate accountancy. In this episode of Punchcard, Abbas and I talk about what led to him betraying his politics and values to work at... Read more »
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    33 min
  • What Happened to Punchcard?

    What Happened to Punchcard?
    Sep 25 2025
    Over a year and 8 episodes later, Punchcard has proven itself as a valuable resource for sharing and learning within the worker co-op network – exploring everything from making decisions and workplace democracy, to overcoming financial difficulties, to rethinking traditional approaches to diversity & inclusion. The first season was funded internally by workers.coop, who unfortunately... Read more »
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    4 min
  • Fighting Sectarianism & Racism with Worker Cooperation w/ Alice McLarnon

    Fighting Sectarianism & Racism with Worker Cooperation w/ Alice McLarnon
    May 22 2025
    Alice McLarnon grew up in Belfast during the Troubles, surrounded by violence, segregation, and 60-foot peace walls. In 2006, she joined the worker cooperative Trademark and was immediately struck by how different it was from anywhere she’d worked before. Coming from low paid work in a chip shop and other hierarchical workplaces, she was shocked... Read more »
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    43 min