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LAFCO recommends city support a pilot delivery cooperative to offer workers an alternative to app platforms
Summary
A research presentation to LAFCO proposed that San Francisco cultivate worker‑owned delivery cooperatives, recommending a three‑phase pilot (member recruitment, training/administrative subsidies, and municipal facilitation) and suggesting city support for app development, permitting, and fiscal incubation to help a cooperative compete with dominant platforms.
LAFCO Executive Officer Bridal Goebel introduced research by LAFCO associate Ryan Powell on cooperatives as an alternative to platform‑based delivery services.
Powell argued that cooperatives — including platform cooperatives and worker‑owned courier co‑ops — can provide a route to better pay, benefits and democratic control for gig workers. He recommended the city develop a pilot delivery cooperative in three…
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