In the Workplace
The following Statement on the Co-operative Identity is from the website of the International Co-operative Alliance. It was updated in 2007; previous versions are available there. While applying these principles will ensure a democratically governed organization, they will do so only for the members. Unless the whole organization is composed of workers or the workers [...]
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In the Workplace
Cooperatives are democratic organizations as far as their members go but are often not very democratic in their governance of workers, particularly when the workers are a whole different group of people from their members. And members are, after all, investors. Worker-owned businesses may also be as autocratic in their governance as the most hierarchical [...]
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