Coming this month, Seattle’s Urban Animal will become the nation’s first worker cooperative veterinary practice, allowing its 110 employees to share in the governance and profits of the 11 year-old company with more than 50,000 clients. In transitioning to a limited cooperative association (LCA), Urban Animal joins approximately three dozen worker cooperative-based businesses in Washington, yet the first veterinary practice of this kind. In launching the LCA, Founder Cherri Trusheim will gift a portion of the company to seed it, with a goal over time to become a 100 percent employee-owned worker co-op.
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