It’s never just a job! Catamount Solar was established in 2011 as an LLC organized as a workers’ cooperative.  Rather than just employees, all company workers are members of the cooperative, sharing its ownership responsibilities and receiving compensation dependent on company profit, and in proportion to their contributed labor.  As a workers’ cooperative, Catamount Solar bases its work in accordance with cooperative principles adopted by the 1995 General Assembly of the International Co-operative Alliance, including:

• voluntary and open membership without arbitrary discrimination
• democratic governance of the cooperative by the members
• economic participation by members
• autonomy and independence of the Cooperative
• providing education and training opportunities for members
• cooperation with other cooperatives
• concern for community.

For more information about worker cooperatives in the United States, visit the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives website – www.usworker.coop.