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In reply to the discussion: Chicago Factory Occupiers Form Worker Cooperative [View all]nxylas
(6,440 posts)35. The Co-Operative here in the UK is getting there
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/
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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