Sample Co-op Bill of Rights
Adapted from Gifford & Libba Pinchot’s “Bill of Rights and Responsibilities of an Intelligent Organization”[1]
Under the umbrella sf human rights, this tool lists several categories of rights and responsibilities that are critical for building and maintaining an ownership culture.
NOTE: The rights and responsibilities below are intended to accrue to workers in a cooperative regardless of their ownership status or place in the management hierarchy. While we understand that worker-owners may have additional rights granted to them by the cooperative by-laws we believe a co-op’s Bill of Rights should be inclusive of all workers.
[1] Pinchot, G. & Pinchot, E. (1994). The End of Bureaucracy and the Rise of the Intelligent Organization. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.