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Guatemalan workers left in a lurch without pay after the Colorado Mushroom Farm collapsed into bankruptcy are exploring a remedy to regain their jobs and boost the San Luis Valley’s ailing economy: run the company themselves as a worker-owned cooperative. A recent survey by Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center found 80% of the farm workers — who have been struggling since the shutdown of the farm, one of the largest employers in Colorado’s lowest-income area — are interested. But paychecks would have to be guaranteed,…