What are your goals as you build your healthcare career?
Of course, you need financial security. But are you seeking more than just a stable paycheck? Joining an employment co-op not only helps you pay your bills and support yourself and your family while pursuing the professional path you have chosen but also provides ongoing fair compensation, benefits your community, and provides you with business decision-making and ownership.
About Employment Co-Ops
Employment co-operatives are value-driven businesses that put worker and community benefits at the very core of their purpose. Unlike traditional companies, workers at co-ops participate democratically in the oversight, profits, and management of their organization. This model has proven effective in creating and maintaining sustainable jobs, improving workers’ quality of life, and promoting community and local economic development.
Cooperative employment:
- This serves as a key to addressing inequality: Successful employment co-ops focus on the needs of their worker members, not solely on investors’ profits. With this philosophy and culture, they democratize wealth and share risk, often making growth opportunities possible for individuals of all backgrounds.
- Builds local wealth: At employment cooperatives, profits go directly to worker members, not to distant investors. Because those worker members often live locally, the money stays local as well, contributing to stronger community wealth. The best co-ops also invest in collaborative initiatives to further empower their communities.
- Creates quality jobs: Cooperative worker-members make key business decisions, contributing to and benefiting from the success of the company they co-own. Jobs at employment cooperatives tend to be longer term, offer robust skills training, and provide better wages and more opportunities for promotion and long-term career stability.
Addressing the Healthcare Worker Shortage
As the population continues to age and current professionals retire, California faces a healthcare worker shortage estimated at over 500,000 this year alone. AlliedUP Co-Operative, Inc. partners with the SEIU-UHW and Futuro Health to recruit, train, and employ tomorrow’s caregivers and meet the needs on the horizon and beyond. This innovative model provides AlliedUP’s workforce with competitive salaries and benefits not otherwise seen as we address this shortage head-on.
Our Education Fund helps worker-members at every stage of their careers, providing:
- Advice: Career counselors offer skills assessments and help worker members design plans to achieve goals and accelerate growth.
- Education and advancement: Tuition reimbursement, preparation courses, wage replacement, apprenticeships, on-the-job training, and other programs are part of the Ed Fund’s menu of benefits.
If you’re ready to unlock the personal, professional, economic, and social benefits of cooperative employment, apply for one of our open roles today.
