The concept is explained much better in the link, but TLDR: People are trying to organize and crowdfund the purchase of spirit airlines assets with the goal of running it as a worker owned business similar to winco or rei. Seems at least tangentially relevant to this community
This is not your point but unfortunately REI is no longer run that way. New leadership a couple years ago who quietly turned it (are turning it?) into your run of the mill corporate enterprise like any other.
Just like they did with MEC in Canada.
Yeah, isn’t the union protesting right now?
REI was never worker owned or operated; it was a member coop (meaning anyone who bought a membership got one vote on the board), not a worker coop.
That fucking sucks, I used to love REI…