The document below was graciously provided to Co-opLaw.org by, a Green Commonwealth Cooperative Inc. a worker-owned cooperative based in San Francisco, California. Rainbow Grocery, founded in 1975 and now with over 220 worker-owners, is the largest worker cooperative in the western United States! Thanks, Rainbow Grocery! Please note that SELC does not endorse, nor has worked on, nor had anything to do with the creation of Rainbow’s bylaws.
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