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In reply to the discussion: Chicago Factory Occupiers Form Worker Cooperative [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)28. I don't either
It's really more of a tongue in cheek statement working on the assumption that the company has a vested interest in screwing employees by making them produce more with less resources. I've always felt that people are productive by nature, and that the job of management should simply be to foster that natural inclination and provide correction only when necessary.
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Who best to trust with the life of an economic enterprise than those who do the WORK of that entrpse
patrice
Jun 2012
#6
Here's something I wrote a while ago on how to structure a worker-owned business:
Jackpine Radical
Jun 2012
#12
That's along the lines that I have been thinking . . . with an addition relative to some way to
patrice
Jun 2012
#13
Perhaps you can see that I think individual workers should consider their own labor as their own
patrice
Jun 2012
#14
These questions would need to be worked out, of course, but they are at a level of detail
Jackpine Radical
Jun 2012
#36
YES! Let the workers agree amongst themselves what "value" is!!! Solidarity, UEW Local 1110!!!
patrice
Jun 2012
#5
I dunno how they can stay in business without a CEO making 200 times more than
shcrane71
Jun 2012
#7
Truncation does not necessarily have to result in termination, does it. Of course, it depends upon
patrice
Jun 2012
#17
I've always believed that workers will screw themselves over far more than management can
Major Nikon
Jun 2012
#18
Reminds me of Naomi Klein's "the Take." Also, 2012 is the UN International Year of Cooperatives
suffragette
Jun 2012
#30