Worker-Owned Businesses Are on the Rise During the Pandemic

Hi there. I’m Jeannette Neumann, the reporter of this week’s Pay Check podcast — our season finale!

For this episode, I went to the 22,000-person town of Mondragon in Spain’s northern Basque region. The town is home to the world’s largest worker cooperative network, called Mondragon Corporation, and I wanted to see how the co-ops have been able to keep unemployment as well as wealth and income inequality in check, crisis after crisis. I learned the pandemic was no exception.