"Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work" is a new film, by award-winning filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin, that documents employee-owned businesses that compete in the economy, while giving their workers secure and dignified jobs in democratic workplaces. The movie tells the story of several companies who are dealing with changes to the global economy by rethinking the way businesses run in order to promote more sustainable communities.

Specifically, the film takes a look at Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (Spain), the Evergreen Cooperatives (Cleveland), Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives (San Francisco), Isthmus Engineering and Manufacturing (Madison, Wis.), Equal Exchange (Boston) and cooperatives of immigrant workers.

Two screenings of the movie will take place next week in Washington, D.C. The first is at the AFL-CIO headquarters on Dec. 17 at 11 a.m. The film will be preceded by a panel discussion on worker cooperatives and job creation featuring Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers (USW); Gar Alperovitz of Democracy Collaborative; Liz Bailey of Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF); John Cavanagh of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS); David Madland of Center for American Progress; and Michael Peck of Mondragón. The second screening is also on Dec.17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Landmark E Street Cinema.

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The Washington, D.C., screenings are sponsored by: American Sustainable Business Council; Coop DC; CDF; DC Labor FilmFest; Democracy Collaborative; IPS; Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO; Mondragon USA; National Cooperative Business Association; NCB Financial Group; New Economy Working Group; ONE DC; Taylored Communications; and the USW.