I wish my union hall would talk about this. We have almost a billion in investments, 5500 active members, 1500 retired. Around 50 employers in the group, feels like we’re getting jerked around by the biggest 3 of the companies. Sure would be interesting to open a truly worker/union owned coop to level out the playing field and demonstrate how much value we throw away into the company coffers.
Imagine the workers of a business owning the company they work for. Imagine being able to fire/hire your CEO and bosses.
This is how worker-owned cooperatives already work today. We could just expand that idea to all businesses.
I wish my union hall would talk about this. We have almost a billion in investments, 5500 active members, 1500 retired. Around 50 employers in the group, feels like we’re getting jerked around by the biggest 3 of the companies. Sure would be interesting to open a truly worker/union owned coop to level out the playing field and demonstrate how much value we throw away into the company coffers.
i want to work at a worker coop sooo fucking bad. most of the problems at every job ive ever had were caused by the greed crazy upper management.
Same, comrade. My last job was at a startup, so it’s my own fault, kind of. I knew what venture capitalists do. 🙈
You could also look into what size stock investment the union can afford. Can you get better leverage as an owner?