| > ...opening up co-ops. Word. IIRC: SEIU, or equally large org, has been funding employee co-ops. Also IIRC: Richard Wolfe coined worker directed social enterprises (WDSE) to encompass all the democracy and co-op notions. Having done some (very modest) workplace democracy, and seen the results, I'm very bullish. I read Wolfe's book Democracy at Work when it came out. It was a (very modest) good start. But needed a lot more work developing the ideas. Especially wrt governance and operations. Enough time has passed, I should circle back and see how things have progressed. > Unions ironically act very conservative these days. In multiple ways. In the US, the transition from representing predominately white middle class blue collar workers to representing all workers has been very bumpy. Labor in the US would be so much further along today if unions had also abandoned their commitment to the Cold War Consensus when Capital did. Anti labor measures like NAFTA should have been wake up calls. |