Been giving some more thought to #MultiStakeholderCoops lately, and an approach recently occurred to me that I'd not considered before.

Generally, my sense has been that the #coop has 2 or more classes of shares, with each class of shares owning X% or Y% of the co-op. When there's surplus, the workers divide X% of it on the basis of hours worked, and the consumers divide Y% on the basis of dollars spent. So, when converting a consumer co-op to a MSC, the workers would be buying X%. 1/

@samtoland there have been some issues around retaining earnings for #workercoops, though there's been some creative work on that front recently. They're also used for worker co-ops that have undocumented immigrant member-owners.

Generally the #consumercoop statutes are a lot more developed in the States, so there really hasn't been perceived need to jerry-rig something on an llc structure for that model.

And #multistakeholdercoops are virtually nonexistent here, so hard to say on that front.