Green Worker Cooperatives

cooperative developer

Green Worker Cooperatives

Industry Cooperatives

A cooperative developer helping build worker-owned businesses, with community wealth-building aims and governance tied to cooperative incubation. Green Worker Cooperatives scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and governance has stronger accountability than peers, and no current penalty outweighs that structure.

Why this matters: Cooperative-development groups affect whether structural alternatives can scale.

Letter grade A Good High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 55* A - Good

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material55
Bonus+0
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap55
Penalties0
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Evaluation Overview

A - Good

The score turns mainly on Ownership; no penalty currently dominates the evaluation.

Strengths

  • Ownership8/10
  • Governance8/10
  • Extraction8/10

Penalties

  • No penalties applied in this version.

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessPartial (AI)
  • Linked claims9
  • Direct axis claims9
  • Coverage9/9

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
8 / 10

Green Worker Cooperatives describes its mission as building worker-owned green businesses in the South Bronx and beyond.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 168 scored entries below, 32 tied, 26 above on Ownership.

Linked evidence
  • context Green Worker Cooperatives describes its mission as building worker-owned green businesses in the South Bronx and beyond. [1]
  • Green Worker Cooperatives operates a cooperative-development nonprofit rather than an ordinary investor-owned firm; its reviewed materials focus on incubating worker cooperatives in New York City. [2]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
8 / 10

Green Worker Cooperatives describes its mission as building worker-owned green businesses in the South Bronx and beyond.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 192 scored entries below, 14 tied, 20 above on Governance.

Linked evidence
  • Green Worker Cooperatives describes its mission as building worker-owned green businesses in the South Bronx and beyond. [1]
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
8 / 10

Green Worker Cooperatives describes its mission as building worker-owned green businesses in the South Bronx and beyond.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 173 scored entries below, 34 tied, 19 above on Extraction.

Linked evidence
  • context Green Worker Cooperatives describes its mission as building worker-owned green businesses in the South Bronx and beyond. [1]
  • Green Worker Cooperatives states that its Co-op Academy can be offered at no charge through public and funder support, reducing extraction from early cooperative teams. [3]
Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
6 / 7

Green Worker Cooperatives focuses on building worker-owned green businesses, so its labor-sovereignty value comes from cooperative development rather than direct employment scale alone.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 193 scored entries below, 11 tied, 22 above on Labor Sovereignty.

Linked evidence
  • context Green Worker Cooperatives describes its mission as building worker-owned green businesses in the South Bronx and beyond. [1]
  • Green Worker Cooperatives focuses on building worker-owned green businesses, so its labor-sovereignty value comes from cooperative development rather than direct employment scale alone. [4]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
6 / 7

Green Worker Cooperatives describes its mission as building worker-owned green businesses in the South Bronx and beyond.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 197 scored entries below, 22 tied, 7 above on Solidarity with the Unemployed.

Linked evidence
  • context Green Worker Cooperatives describes its mission as building worker-owned green businesses in the South Bronx and beyond. [1]
  • Green Worker Cooperatives prioritizes teams in New York City and especially the Bronx, including people still at the idea stage of building green worker cooperative businesses. [5]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
6 / 7

Green Worker Cooperatives describes its mission as building worker-owned green businesses in the South Bronx and beyond.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 163 scored entries below, 54 tied, 9 above on Loss-Bearing Fidelity.

Linked evidence
  • context Green Worker Cooperatives describes its mission as building worker-owned green businesses in the South Bronx and beyond. [1]
  • Green Worker Cooperatives pairs cooperative training with connections to financial services for worker cooperatives, taking on development work before businesses are established. [6]
Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
4 / 5

Green Worker Cooperatives runs cooperative development and training programs rather than a conventional shareholder business.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 106 scored entries below, 73 tied, 47 above on Market Conduct.

Linked evidence
  • context Green Worker Cooperatives runs cooperative development and training programs rather than a conventional shareholder business. [7]
  • Green Worker Cooperatives trains teams to create worker cooperative businesses rather than selling a conventional consulting product to already-capitalized firms. [8]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
4 / 5

Green Worker Cooperatives runs cooperative development and training programs rather than a conventional shareholder business.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 61 scored entries below, 72 tied, 93 above on Product Integrity.

Linked evidence
  • context Green Worker Cooperatives runs cooperative development and training programs rather than a conventional shareholder business. [7]
  • Green Worker Cooperatives' core public offering is cooperative business training for teams seeking to build green worker-owned firms. [9]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
5 / 5

Green Worker Cooperatives runs cooperative development and training programs rather than a conventional shareholder business.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 191 scored entries below, 35 tied, 0 above on Scale Integrity.

Linked evidence
  • Green Worker Cooperatives runs cooperative development and training programs rather than a conventional shareholder business. [7]

Penalties

No penalties applied in this version.

Bonus Credits

No bonus credits applied in this version.

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

High 80/100

9 verified linked claims 9 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 9/9 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 17/20

9 verified linked claims

Source quality 10/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

9 direct claims across 9 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

9/9 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessPartial (AI)
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Claims and Sources

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* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Green Worker Cooperatives describes its mission as building worker-owned green businesses in the South Bronx and beyond.

Governance Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

2Green Worker Cooperatives operates a cooperative-development nonprofit rather than an ordinary investor-owned firm; its reviewed materials focus on incubating worker cooperatives in New York City.

Ownership Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

3Green Worker Cooperatives states that its Co-op Academy can be offered at no charge through public and funder support, reducing extraction from early cooperative teams.

Extraction Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

4Green Worker Cooperatives focuses on building worker-owned green businesses, so its labor-sovereignty value comes from cooperative development rather than direct employment scale alone.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

5Green Worker Cooperatives prioritizes teams in New York City and especially the Bronx, including people still at the idea stage of building green worker cooperative businesses.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

6Green Worker Cooperatives pairs cooperative training with connections to financial services for worker cooperatives, taking on development work before businesses are established.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

7Green Worker Cooperatives runs cooperative development and training programs rather than a conventional shareholder business.

Scale Integrity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

8Green Worker Cooperatives trains teams to create worker cooperative businesses rather than selling a conventional consulting product to already-capitalized firms.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

9Green Worker Cooperatives' core public offering is cooperative business training for teams seeking to build green worker-owned firms.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

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