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nxylas

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35. The Co-Operative here in the UK is getting there
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 03:06 AM
Jun 2012

The Co-Operative Retail Society, ususally known as just The Co-Operative or The Co-Op is a major player here, There are Co-Op grocery stores, a Co-Op bank, Co-Op pharmacies, travel agencies, funeral parlors and so on.

http://www.co-operative.coop/

+1 limpyhobbler Jun 2012 #1
This is how I think the auto bailouts should have gone. Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #2
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
Me too. zeemike Jun 2012 #8
Was that the Mondragon co-op? nxylas Jun 2012 #11
No this was a US company that made robotic equipment. zeemike Jun 2012 #15
Who does their IT? Their "expert" skills? boppers Jun 2012 #20
There are a lot of ways that could be handled. Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #21
So, if contractors, not part of the workforce, no ownership? boppers Jun 2012 #31
These questions would need to be worked out, of course, but they are at a level of detail Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #36
I, too, hope this will become a trend. Brigid Jun 2012 #3
One factory at a time nxylas Jun 2012 #4
There's room for a lot of creativity here. Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #22
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
They're not in business. Igel Jun 2012 #10
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
I don't see voluntarily taking on more work as screwing themselves over nxylas Jun 2012 #19
Randroids are the models for the projection defense mechanism. Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #23
I don't either Major Nikon Jun 2012 #28
I'd love to see the day when a Co-op becomes too big to fail. shcrane71 Jun 2012 #27
The Co-Operative here in the UK is getting there nxylas Jun 2012 #35
"Armando Robles, president of the United Electrical Workers Local 1110" HiPointDem Jun 2012 #9
A Hundred Years of Servitude humus Jun 2012 #16
Thanks for this contribution. Jackpine Radical Jun 2012 #24
This is really great news. Marrah_G Jun 2012 #25
Progress. BlueIris Jun 2012 #26
OOPS! This won't do............. socialist_n_TN Jun 2012 #29
Reminds me of Naomi Klein's "the Take." Also, 2012 is the UN International Year of Cooperatives suffragette Jun 2012 #30
Love the last paragraph of Ebert's review nxylas Jun 2012 #33
It's great when he gets feisty suffragette Jun 2012 #34
Eventually we will do this as we become the government. nt Zorra Jun 2012 #32
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