Most housecleaners and landscape workers don’t have the opportunity to earn a living wage.  They have to rush through their jobs, using whatever chemicals, equipment and methods their employers decide will maximize profits, often at the expense of the health of the workers, their clients, and the environment.

There is a better way. We are creating a worker-owned cooperative to provide top-notch green housekeeping and landscaping services in our neighborhoods.  Your support of this project will help us develop a business built on cooperation and shared responsibility, democratically controlled by workers able to directly benefit from the hard work they invest.  Our coop will be operated with a commitment to reducing negative environmental impact and helping ‘green’ our neighborhoods by using safer, more environmentally-friendly products and processes.   

We will help our families maintain economic independence by supporting one another.  Our worker-owned coop will offer the very best services, be democratic and socially just, and it will keep money circulating in our own neighborhoods.  We believe we should all strive to take better care of the earth and help others do so as well—even when it takes a bit more time or money.  We also believe workers should be able to earn a living wage, and have safer working conditions with less exposure to harmful products.  Our green service workers’ cooperative will allow us to put both goals into action at the same time, right in the neighborhoods where we live and work. Meaningful, sustainable change can be created from the bottom up, one one worker, one house, and one garden at a time!