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{{Occupy Portland Event
| event name = Presentation: Collectivizing Alberta Co-op
| page = Presentation: Collectivizing Alberta Co-op 1 29 12
| date = Sunday, January 29, 2012
| time = 7:00pm until 10:00pm
| location = Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97214
| purpose = ;The staff at Alberta Grocery Co-op are dumping the bosses off their backs! 
At this event we'll be hearing about the intense fight within Alberta's board, co-op membership and paid staff over workplace democracy.
 
This fight included retaliatory firings, workplace censorship and even a manager who called the cops on a former worker for "trespassing".

To fight back members and workers formed Members for a Democratic Co-op and forced a vote by consumer members about whether the staff would be democratically self-managed or have a (dictatorial) general manager. 

Several other bylaw change proposals, including ones that guarantee free speech in the work place and that limit wage disparity were proposed. 

;The workers won! 
Every single change was passed. Now they're faced with transitioning to collective management from a temporary general manager, the second hired to run the store in the chaos created by the fight over the co-op's fate. So we'll be hearing about how that's going and what their plan is. This should be super interesting! 
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