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In reply to the discussion: Chicago Factory Occupiers Form Worker Cooperative [View all]boppers
(16,588 posts)31. So, if contractors, not part of the workforce, no ownership?
I've almost always been in a middle tier, not quite labor, not quite owner, and conventional worker/owner paradigms often seem to ignore the many layers and levels between unskilled factory labor and unskilled CEO.
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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