Thanks to members of Sheet Metal Workers Local 24 and other building trades Locals, a new full-service grocery store will be built in an underserved Dayton neighborhood.

When it opens later this year, Gem City Market will become Dayton’s first worker and community-owned co-operative grocery store.

A co-op is unique because it is owned and democratically governed by its members, the people who use its products or services or those employed by the business. Continue reading →