I have spoken to Mike about this endeavor and would like to engage him and the larger audience of folks interested in promoting Worker Owned Co-ops as to the necessary and desirable 'infrastructure' to pursue this goal. As I have talked with Mike, in my capacity serving on the Member Education Committee of the Berkeley Co-operative Federal Credit Union, I'm most interested in engaging the membership of the credit union about worker owned co-operatives and collectives and possible consumer co-operative roles. I hope that OPEIU Local 29, the union that represents the employees of the credit union, can be brought into this conversation. Besides being a member of the old Co-op grocery store, I have been a union organizer and rep. for SEIU and 1199J, as well as a rank and file member and activist with other unions including OEA/CTA/NEA, on which I served on the joint policy committee with the AFT local, of which I was also a member. My education at the Department of City and Regional Planning included local economic development planning and community development planning. This education was at UC Berkeley where I still retain contacts and engage that community. My present work on the City of Berkeley Labor Commissioner hopefully could be of value. Note: I'm not currently a member of a Co-op, yet.