Yes, your view of a co-op is too narrow: http://ncba.coop/what-is-a-coop

Ok but one of the 7 cooperative principles in that link is "democratic member control", which is exactly what I'm referring to. If you're going to say, oh well not every employee is a "member", well, I don't think you can make the claim that because Coca Cola has employees that might be stockholders, that that makes it a coop.

Any company has democratic member control, but the "members" are the shareholders.

Coops aren't any different.

No it's not what you are referring to. The mistake you are making is thinking employees == members.

Yes a producer coop may well employ non members - though in theory a worker coop doesn't John Lewis in th Uk is looked down on by the rest of the worker coops fro employing non members as cleaners