Comments on: Worker Owned Cooperatives

By: Elizabeth Sholes

Elizabeth Sholes — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 04:33:18 +0000

The top 100 worker owned companies are NOT small. Even one that is less than 50% employee owned is huge – it’s Southwest Airlines. The key is not just stock ownership but management input. United Airlines has the former but not the latter and reflects its own dismal failure every day. But the fact is – these are NOT small or simple endeavors. No one knows the work process better than the people who do it day in and day out. Corporations have always depended on worker ingenuity whether they respect and reward it or not. With employee ownership and management, those who make the profits – the employees – also benefit from their own work. It’s the antithesis of both private and state corporatism where absent managers try to control people and processes they neither know nor understand. This is the most efficient and productive and profitable form of business – and it promotes the greatest degree of self sufficiency for the largest number of people. It’s got to be the wave of the future.

By: Erik Esse

Erik Esse — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:17:23 +0000

Thank you for this episode! It’s all old news to me, but I’m so glad you are spreading info about the coop model more widely. Keep it up. It’s great to hear about positive alternatives on a business/economics show.

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