Knew someone who worked for them years back. They said the co-op thing meant very little to individual workers like them, it basically amounted to a newsletter regularly. I don't know enough details to argue either way, except to observe that just because something says it is a co-op doesn't mean individual workers really feel empowered.

If its 50% plus 1 owned by the employees its a coop - and I think your forgetting the yearly bonus.

Not that JL was not a bit naughty in outsourceing its cleaners.