@evan I'd prefer a model which is not as adversarial as unions are. The "co-determination” system in Germany is a good system where workers elect representatives to a company's supervisory board. This way the direction of the company and policies are directly influenced by workers. The current system the US has where workers must go on strike without pay for weeks or months to get fair contracts is harmful to workers as we saw with the writers strike.

By law, companies with more than 2,000 employees must have an equal number of worker elected representatives on the board. This reduces the friction between workers and management while ensuring workers have a voice and significant influence.

@brennansv @evan Also the legal form dubbed 'worker coop' in the UK doesn't exist in many other legislations.

Here in the EU, if not trying to harmonise cooperative legislation, there are attempts at new legal forms where shared ownership is a mandatory quality.

So far the cooperatives movement has found different implementations throughout the globe, and we need to learn a lot more from each other how to use existing and advocate for new legal forms for fruitful ecosystems.

@yala @brennansv @evan

This BBC Horizon's 1980 documentary on the Mondragon Experiment might be interesting. Talks about how they developed somewhat organically based on the needs of the community, from manufacturing to education to banking.

https://archive.org/details/TheMondragonExperiment