Immigrant women in Richmond start worker cooperative

Alejandra Escobedo (second from left) started a worker cooperative in Mexico. When she moved to Richmond, Ca, she wanted to try to do it again.

Five immigrant women decided to sacrifice their jobs and their time to start a worker cooperative with no money, just the idea. One woman said they went on food stamps to survive while starting the business with just a few hundred dollars. Find out why these women decided to make sacrifices for the goal of being in a cooperative in my story on Richmond Confidential.